370. Tickets.
370. Tickets.—Various forms of borrowers’ tickets are used with indicators and card charging, but only the kinds most commonly used need be described. One form is shown below ([Fig. 137]) for libraries in which borrowers retain their tickets when they have no books on loan. They are made with cloth backs to fold across, and the one with the clipped corner is a good form to adopt for students’ or extra tickets available for non-fictional works only. The variety shown is not ruled to hold a record of the numbers of books which are borrowed upon it, as it does not seem necessary to keep such a record. To keep it involves a great deal of work, and the information it affords, being practically confined to what type of book an individual reads, is rarely wanted. As a check on lost books it may have some value, but that has no relation to the cost of keeping it.
This ticket can be used with any kind of issue method, and it is therefore noted here and not with other cards among the charging systems.
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H. C. RHODES,
3 Mafeking Avenue.
Borrower’s Card.
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LIBERTON
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
This Card to be given
up when a Book is
borrowed.