Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Ottawa, Canada, June 26-July 2, 1912
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Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Ottawa, Canada, June 26-July 2, 1912
American Library Association; Library science -- Congresses
=St. Louis Mercantile Library.= Browne system, with separate reader's
identification card, seldom used. Uses blue reader's pocket for
fiction, salmon color for non-fiction, and manilla pockets for pay
duplicates. Book card corresponds in color, except in case of regular
books issued as extras. Book card has Cutter class number, author and
title. Assistant stamps date due on dating slip and book card which
is placed in reader's pocket. Pockets are put temporarily in tray
near issue desk and later filed by class, under date due. Books are
discharged by charging assistant at charging desk, by taking book card
from pocket and slipping it into book. Empty reader's pockets are
constantly being filed in regular reader's file.
=St. Louis Public Library.= Newark system. Different colored ink-pads
for seven day and fourteen day books and for discharging. Reader's
number first written on bookcard, then book card, dating slip and
reader's card stamped. Reading-room books charged on slips filled out
by reader. Two books generally are issued on one card but "Additional
Books" stamped on reader's card entitles cardholder to a greater number
of volumes, of non-fiction, usually six. This privilege is granted to
educators, social workers and others engaged in serious study, at the
discretion of the head of the circulation department.
Discharging is done at a separate desk in the usual way, receipts being
filed for books returned without reader's card. Books are placed on a
truck and checked off by a special assistant.
=Society Library=
=The Medical Society of the County of Kings=--Uses a borrower's
receipt, giving author, title, accession number and borrower's
signature. These receipts are filed by borrower's name. When book is
returned, it is discharged by stamping date of return on receipt and
placing in file of cancelled loans.
The libraries using colored book cards to denote the classes are:
East Orange Public Library.
New York Public Library.
St. Louis Mercantile Library--colors simply indicating fiction or
non-fiction.
Those using colored book cards for their double file (borrower's and
book) are:
Boston Athenaeum.
Oberlin College.
At the time of book's issue bookcards are dropped into a drawer
through slots designating classes of the books issued by the following
libraries:
Carnegie Library of Atlanta.
New York Public Library.
Pratt Institute Free Library--designates fiction, non-fiction and
teachers.
Libraries using temporary bookcards, filled out at time of book's
issue by borrower or assistant:
Iowa State.
Tulane University.
Virginia State.
Wesleyan University.
Libraries using a borrower's record for privileged classes (professors,
etc.) and a time record for students:
Kansas University.
Oberlin University.
Syracuse University.
Wesleyan University.
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