The entries of each day are summed up, in the several classes of which the Library consists, and a daily return is sent to the Principal Librarian, in the following form: : MANCHESTER FREE LIBRARIES. HULME BRANCH LENDING DEPARTMENT. No. 301. Entered: J. R. 24th day of November, 1858. The following is a Return of the Books issued from this Department on CLASS. I. Theology. II. Philosophy III. History .... IV. Politics and Commerce V. Sciences and Arts.... VOLUMES. 4 3 113 4 41 201 Total number of Volumes 366 CHARLES DYALL, Branch Librarian. Vol. II. TO THE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN. 67 BOOK IV. Chapter VII. of Lending Libraries. Most of the working details of the Manchester Li The Regulation brary have been copied in the other Free rate-supported Libraries of England; but, doubtless, with occasional improvements. At Liverpool, especially, the existing arrangements are excellent, and the amount of success which has attended the operations of the Lending Libraries is remarkable. The following is a copy of the Rules under which they are worked: Regulations of the Liverpool Lending Libra ries. LIVERPOOL FREE LENDING LIBRARIES. Readers are requested to observe the following Regulations. To deliver their Books to the Librarian in the order in which they enter the Library. To furnish a List with their Name attached, legibly written in Ink, containing the Class Letter, Catalogue Number, and Name of at least Ten Books, in the order wished for, together with their Library Ticket, as no Book can be lent without. To erase from their List such works as they have previously read, as Books cannot be changed twice on the same day. To report to the Librarian any injury which may occur to a Book while in their possession, or that they may have noticed as having been previously done. To return each Book within the time specified (which, if not read, may at the discretion of the Librarian, be renewed), otherwise the parties so neglecting will be subject to a fine, which will be strictly enforced. To use clean hands while reading, and carefully to avoid turning down the leaves. Each Borrower must bring in his Ticket for renewal every twelve months from date of issue, as, nnless this be attended to, no further Books can be lent, and a fresh Voucher will be required, as on the first application. To hand in on a slip of Paper to the Librarian with the number of the Library Ticket, their new address when they change their residence, otherwise the privilege to borrow Books will cease. Parties leaving town, or ceasing to use the Library, are required to return their Tickets to the Librarian, in order to have their Guarantees cancelled, otherwise they and their Guarantees will be held responsible for any Books taken out in their name. STATISTICS OF THE LIVERPOOL LIBRARIES. 1059 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 Lending Libraries will illustrate their organization and work BOOK IV. Chapter VII. The Regulation of Lending Libraries. Working of the Liverpool Lend 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 hranch. Not infrequently as many as 1400 persons have attended the Lending Libraries in the course of one day. Lending Regulations of the University Library of Cambridge. 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. REGULATIONS OF CAMBRIDGE UNIV. LIBRARY. 1061 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 renewed 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. |