There does not seem to be any obvious advantage in the American plan of printing the accession numbers progressively down each page, as this renders it impossible to re-enter a new book which has been given a withdrawn number, and there is a decided waste in using up from two to a hundred lines for a single work.

225.

225. The stock book now recommended can be adapted to any system of classification, and when used in conjunction with the annual abstract sheets, ruled as [shown] on [page 203], the exact position of the stock can be easily and correctly ascertained.

Accession
No.		Author.Brief Title.Place of
Publication.		Date of
Publication.		No. of
Vols.

Fig. 69.—Stock Book.—Left-hand Folio ([Section 224]).

Class
No.		Binding.Donor
or
Vendor.		Date of
Receipt.		Price.Special
Collection.		With-
drawal
Book.		Remarks.

Fig. 70.—Stock Book.—Right-hand Folio ([Section 224]).

226.

226. Every book received into the library must be entered in the stock book, and a separate book should be kept for the reference and lending departments and for every branch. Provision is made in the ruling for any needful cross-reference to the withdrawals book, and a column is used for any remarks required to elucidate further the history of each book. When a book is discarded it is entered in the withdrawals book, and the page of this register is carried into the appropriate column in the stock book against the original entry. The stock is balanced annually by the withdrawals of the year being deducted from the total stock as ascertained at the end of the previous year, plus all the new additions. Withdrawn numbers should be applied to new books so as to prevent blanks in the sequence, and such books must be entered in the stock book in its chronological order, and cross-references made between the new and original entries.

Page.Classification.Total
Vols.		Bought.Pre-
sented.		Special
Collections.