When books are received at the local centre the librarian checks them with the cards and arranges them in the order of the cards on the shelves. The charging method is obvious. The charge is made under the name of the author, particulars of readers and date of issue and return being entered in the appropriate columns, the word “adult” being written in the age column for readers obviously over twenty-one. The charges are returned to the repository at the exchange periods, and these enable statistics to be made.
| Library................................................................... | Book No. ...................... | |||||||
| Author ................................................................. | Card No. .............. | |||||||
| Title ...................................................................... | ||||||||
| Name of Reader. | Age. | Occupation. | Date Borrowed. | Date Returned. | ||||
| Day. | Mth. | Yr. | Day. | Mth. | Yr. | |||
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| Continue on other side | ||||||||
Fig. 182.—Front of Charging Card—Carnegie Rural Library Scheme.
The size is 73⁄4 × 43⁄4 inches.
| Continued | ||||||||
| Name of Reader. | Age. | Occupation. | Date Borrowed. | Date Returned. | ||||
| Day. | Mth. | Yr. | Day. | Mth. | Yr. | |||
| Don’t write below this line. | ||||||||
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Fig. 183.—Back of Carnegie Charging Card.
548. Museum of Rural Library Appliances.
548. Museum of Rural Library Appliances.—The above are, in brief, the chief features of the North of Scotland scheme, which seems to be serving its purpose admirably; and in connexion with it the Trust is building up at Dunfermline a small museum of rural library appliances, to include different types of boxes, forms, and other machinery tried in the various centres. This valuable work will in time furnish librarians with a considerable amount of important and useful data.