COTGREAVE’S LIBRARY INDICATOR.
This Invention is now in use in some 200 Public Libraries (30 in London and Suburbs), and has everywhere given great satisfaction. The following is a brief summary of its more useful features:
1. Show at a glance both to borrower and Librarian the books or magazines in or out. Also the titles can be shown to the borrower if desired. 2. Who has any book that is out, and how long it has been out. 3. The names of every borrower that has had any book since it was added to the Library. 4. The dates of accession, binding, or replacement of any book. 5. The title, author, number of volumes, and date of publication. 6. The book any individual has out, and every book he has had out since joining the library. 7. If a borrower’s ticket has been misplaced in the indicator, it will instantly denote, if referred to, the exact number where such ticket will be found. 8. It will show at a glance by a colour arrangement the number of books issued each day or week, and consequently which are overdue. 9. Stocktaking can be carried out in one quarter of the time usually required, and without calling the books in. 10. Wherever it has been adopted the cost of labour and losses of books have been very greatly reduced, so much so that in a very short time it has recouped the cost of purchase. Thus all book-keeping or other record may be entirely dispensed with.
Sole Agent and Manufacturer:
W. MORGAN, 21 CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM.
Cotgreave’s Rack for Periodicals and Magazines.
This design is now used in a large number of Libraries and Reading Rooms with great advantage. Periodicals of any size can be kept alphabetically arranged either in covers or without. There are no clips, springs, or other mechanical fittings, but everything is as simple as can be.
Manufacturer:
WAKE & DEAN, 111 LONDON ROAD, LONDON, S.E.
Cotgreave’s Solid Leather Covers for Periodicals.
These covers are made of solid leather and will last longer than a dozen of any other material. Several Libraries have had them in use for a dozen years or more, without any appearance of wear.
Manufacturer:
W. MORGAN, 21 CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM.