Fig. 62A.—Accessions Routine Book ([Section 215]).
217.
217. According to the system of charging used, each book should be dealt with further, as regards appropriating its equivalent card, indicator book, or ledger page, as may be needful. Assuming that card charging is the adopted plan, a specially made manila book-card must be prepared, having the accession and class number and letter, and its author and title written on its front surface, as below:
| E 100·3. |
| Balfour. |
| Manual of Botany. |
Fig. 63.—Manila Book-card.
This form of book-card may be ruled to take the borrowers’ numbers and dates of issues, and is one of the main accessories of the card system described in [Sections 380], [381].
218.
218. With indicators it is necessary to write the accession numbers on to the indicator books or tabs according to the style of indicator used. In forms such as the Elliot, the number is already fixed on the indicator frame and requires no additional book tab or block. Other processes connected with book numbering for shelving purposes are considered in [Chapter XXV].