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publishers and prices of
books for the school, the library, and the home, 1898. Normal school,
St Cloud, Minn., $1.25.
Iles, George. List of books for girls and women and their clubs, 1895.
Library Bureau, $1.
World's library congress, papers prepared for, held at World's
Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893. United States Bureau of
education, Washington, D.C., free. Covers very fully the entire field of
library economy.
II. PERIODICALS
Book news, monthly. Wanamaker, Philadelphia, 50 cents. (Book
reviews.)
Dial, semi-monthly, 24 Adams St., Chicago, $2. (Book reviews, notes
and essays.)
Literature, weekly. Harper & Bros., N.Y., $4. (Current English and
American literature.)
Nation, weekly. New York, $3. (Book reviews, art, politics.)
Publishers' weekly, the American book trade journal, 59 Duane St.,
N.Y., $5. (Lists nearly all American and best English books as
published.)
Library journal, monthly, $5 a year, 58 Duane St., New York. This is
the official organ of the American Library Association.
Public libraries, monthly, $1 a year, 215 Madison St., Chicago.
Presents library methods in a manner especially helpful to small
libraries.
New York Times Saturday review of books and art. The Times, N.Y.,
$1.

Monthly cumulative book index. An author, title, and subject index to
the books published during the current year, brought up to date in one
alphabet each month. Morris & Wilson, Minneapolis, Minn., $1.50
III. OTHER THINGS
Accession book. See catalog of the Library Bureau. For a very small
library a common blank-book will do.
Agreement blanks, which the borrower signs before getting his
borrower's card giving him the right to use the library. See chapter on
charging systems.
Book cards. See chapter on charging systems, and Library Bureau
catalog.
Book pockets. See Library Bureau catalog, and also chapter on
charging systems.
Borrowers' cards. Given to borrowers as evidence of their right to draw
books. See chapter on charging systems.
Borrowers' register, best kept on cards. See chapter on charging
systems.
Catalog cards. These are of two sizes and many thicknesses. Select
what suits you. See Library Bureau catalog.
Catalog case. See Library Bureau catalog. For a very small library a
few japanned tin trays will serve. But your catalog will grow faster than
you suppose.
Cole size card; a sheet marked in such a way as to give one at a glance
the proper letter to use in indicating the size of any book placed on it.
See Library Bureau catalog. In a very small library not needed.
Classification scheme. See chapters on classification.
Cutter author table for book numbers. See chapter on book numbers.

For a very small library one can use numbers only.
Daters and ink pads for dating borrowers' cards, etc. The pencil daters
are best. See chapter on charging systems.
Ink. For all outside labels use Higgins' American drawing ink,
waterproof. For book cards, borrowers' cards, etc., use any good black,
non-copying ink. Carter's fluid is very good.
Labels. Round ones are best and those ready gummed do well if
carefully put on. Dennison's "88A" are good.
Paste. Binder's paste is good; for library use it needs thinning. Higgins'
photo mounter and other like bottled pastes are better.
Rubber stamps and ink pad for marking books with name of library.
See chapter on preparing books for the shelves.
Shelf list cards. See Library Bureau catalog.
Shelf list sheets (or cards). See Library Bureau catalog. In a very small
library sheets of ordinary ruled writing paper will serve. It is better,
however, to get the right thing at the start.
CHAPTER X
The relation of the Library Bureau to libraries
Geo. B. Meleney, Ch. Mgr., in Public Libraries, May, 1896
The consideration of the relations of the Library Bureau to libraries
brings us back to the organization of the American Library Association
in 1876. At this gathering of the prominent librarians of the country, the
discussion of methods brought out the lack of unanimity in, and the
need of coöperation for, a uniform system in the various branches of
library work. To carry out uniform methods requires uniform material,
and this was hard to obtain. The American Library Association as such,
of course, could not take up a business venture of this kind, but it was

decided to advise an organization for keeping on sale such supplies and
library aids as the association might decide were needed.
The Library Bureau was then organized for this purpose, and has
continued to keep the same relation toward the library association as
was originally intended. Referring to the numbers of the Library
Bureau catalogs, one may trace the history of the development not only
of the appliances furnished by the Library Bureau, but also of ideas of
library economy as they are gathered there from every source. It
confined its attention at first to libraries only, the business being
divided into four departments: employment, to bring