Readers are cautioned against losing their Tickets, as they will be held responsible for any Book or Books which may be taken out of the Library with their Cards. Tickets lost can be replaced at the expiration of a fortnight, on payment of Two-pence each. As the Books are public property and intended for the good of all, it is earnestly hoped that the Readers will assist the Librarian in carrying out the foregoing Regulations. The Superintendent will be happy to receive suggestions from The new Works, as added, are regularly written up on the R. W. ROULSTON, The following Statistics of the Liverpool Free Lend BOOK IV. Chapter VII. The Regulation of Lending Libraries. Working of the Liverpool Lend ing Libraries will illustrate their organization and work- ing Libraries. At this date, the number of active Readers on the Books stood thus:-North Branch 3273; South Branch 4420; the remaining 8502, had been cancelled. A regular system of renewal of Tickets is kept up once a year, and by this means, the officers are at any moment able to ascertain who are using the Libraries and who are not, and whether the sureties are still on the Municipal Burgess List. It is interesting to notice that there have been added, during the year, fifty-eight volumes of embossed Read BOOK IV. Chapter VII. of Lending Libraries. ing for the Blind, by Moon of Brighton, and that there are The Regulation now thirty-three blind persons availing themselves of the privilege of borrowing these books. The issues of embossed books, up to the present time, amount to about 300 volumes. Additional accommodation for both Books and Readers being much wanted, the Corporation has recently purchased two large houses, which it is purposed to convert into a Library for the South district. It is also intended further to enlarge the building at the North ranch. Not infrequently as many as 1400 persons have attended the Lending Libraries in the course of one day. Lending Regu- University Li brary of The cost of working them, including Salaries, from the 1st September 1857 to the 1st June 1858, has been £1121. 12s. 1d.; which is equal to £1500 a year. The staff consists of an Assistant and three Boys at each Branch. I close this Chapter with a copy of the Regulations of the Cambridge University Library, so far as they relate to the Loan of Books: I. For Books allowed to be taken out of the Library. 1. That no persons shall be allowed to take Books out of the Library, but those who, having been admitted to the Degree of M.B., LL.B., M.A., M.D., LL.D., or D.D. have their names on the Boards of their respective Colleges, or are "Commorantes in Villa." 2. That no one shall take or borrow any Book out of the Library without first delivering a note for the same to one of the Library Assistants, expressing his Name and College in his own handwriting, the title of the Book, and the year and day of the month on which such Book is taken or borrowed, on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds, or double the value of such Book, at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor. 3. That the Library Assistants shall preserve all such notes, till the Books so taken out are returned to the Library; and that when all the Books specified in each note are returned, the notes shall be delivered up to the persons by whom the Books are brought back when only some Books specified in each note are returned, the titles of the Books so returned shall be erased from the note at the time. : 4. That no person shall be allowed to have in his possession at one time more than Ten Volumes belonging to the Library; but that the Syndicate will dispense with this Order in any particular case, if they shall be of opinion that sufficient reasons have been assigned for such dispensation: that such dispensation however shall continue in force no longer than to the end of the Quarter for which it shall be granted; but upon fresh application may be re newed by the same authority. 5. That every one who shall borrow or take any Book out of the Library shall return it thither again on or before the next of the Four following Quarter Days: viz. March 25th, June 24th, September 29th, December 21st, under penalty of Two Shillings for every Folio or Quarto, and One Shilling for every Book of less size: all penalties to be repeated every fortnight till the Books be returned, or others of the same editions and equal value placed in their room, such fortnight being first reckoned from the day on which the Library is re-opened after the Quarter Day. If any one of the Quarter Days should fall on a Sunday, or on any other day on which the Library is closed by Rule 27, the day appointed for returning Books shall be the following day.` 6. That no Books shall be taken out of the Library on the days appointed for the return of Books. 7. That every Tutor of a College (being a Member of the Senate or a Bachelor of Law or Physic) shall have fhe privilege of obtaining, for each resident pupil, who shall have been admitted ad respondendum quæstioni, any number of Volumes not exceeding Five from the Library: that each order for the Volumes so obtained shall bear the titles of the Books, and be dated and subscribed as follows: That the Books so obtained shall not be taken out of the Library till the day after that on which the Library is re-opened for the Quarter, and that they shall be returned not later than the day before the next Quarter Day. That the Tutor shall be responsible for the Books so obtained and for the penalties prescribed by Rule 5. BOOK IV. Chapter VII. The Regulation of Lending Libraries. BOOK IV. Chapter VII. The Regulation of Lending Libraries. Lending Regulations of the University Library of Cambridge. 8. That a list of the Books omitted to be returned at the end of any Quarter, together with the names of the borrowers, shall be suspended in some conspicuous place in the Library. 9. That no person, from whom any fine is due to the Library, shall be allowed to take out Books until such fine has been paid. 10. That if any Book shall be injured or defaced by writing while in the possession of any person taking it out of the Library, he shall be required to replace it by another Book of the same edition and of equal value. Persons taking Books out of the Library are required to report without delay to the Library any injury which they may observe in them. II. For Books not allowed to be taken out of the Library without a note countersigned by the Vice-Chancellor. 11. That certain printed Books, of which a list is kept by the Librarian, shall not be taken out except by a note countersigned by the Vice-Chancellor or his deputy, nor until the day after that on which the note is presented; nor shall any person have more than five volumes of such Books out of the Library at one time. 12. That a Register shall be kept of all such Books taken out of the Library, and of the date at which they are returned; that after the Books are returned, the Plates in them shall forthwith be collated, and the collation be registered; that until such collation shall have been made, the Books shall not be accessible to persons using the Library, nor shall the countersigned note be given up to the persons by whom the Books are returned, but in lieu of it an acknowledgment signed by the Librarian or one of his Assistants; that the name of the person by whom the acknowledgment is signed shall also be registered. 13. That the penalties for not returning such Books at the Quarter Days shall be double of the penalties prescribed in Rule 5. CHAPTER VIII. RECAPITULATORY. Thou canst not hide thyself behind thy Work; ANONYMOUS. Every man, in his life-time, needs to thauk his I have now, in a very inadequate manner, but to BOOK IV. Chapter VIII. the best of my ability, passed in review the most im- Recapitulatory. portant of the labours and duties which belong to the formation and management of Libraries. As far as was practicable for me, I have gone into many small details of ordinary routine, as well as into some wide and pregnant questions which are closely linked with social interests of no slight moment; remembering that it is often in small matters that the beginner has most to learn, and least to help him. Librarianship, like schoolkeeping, has, in England, too frequently been made a respectable sort of "Refuge for |