Please unfold carefully to avoid tearing. In re-folding, be sure you return to original folds. If a reference book, ask the assistant to do it for you, rather than re-fold wrongly.
Fig. 67.—Map or Plate Label.
223. Process Checking.
223. Process Checking.—Many libraries keep a complete check of the processes through which a book passes from its receipt from the bookseller to its issue to the public, in the form of a rubber stamp which is impressed upon the back of the title-page, or at some other convenient place in the book:
| Numbered | Cut | Stamped |
| Process Lab. | ||
| Book-plated | Catalogued: Slip: | Checked |
| Annotation: | ||
| Accessioned | Book-carded | Finally Checked and Issued |
Fig. 68.—Process Stamp (or Label).
The assistant carrying out the process initials the appropriate blank on the impression, and this protects the good assistant from blame for the faults of the occasional careless one. What is more important, they show anyone coming newly to a batch of books the stage that has been reached in their preparation. Such stamps are readily applied and have justified their use.
224. Stock Book.
224. Stock Book.—This is the chief inventory or record of the books contained in the library in every department, and should be ruled to show the history of each book from its accession till its final withdrawal. The intermediate renewals of worn-out copies need not be shown in this book, as they complicate the record immensely, and there seems no strong reason for doing more than noting the total number of renewals in the Routine book, as already shown in [Section 215]. There are many forms of stock books, but for ordinary British municipal libraries the variety shown in the ruling on [page 202] will be found, with its accessories, sufficient for every purpose.