Post up in the reading room a list of the periodicals regularly received; also a list of those in the bound files.
[A careful record should be kept of each magazine ordered, of the date when ordered, the date when the subscription begins and expires, the price paid, the agency from which it is ordered, and the date of that agency's receipted bill.] If the list of journals taken is small this record can be kept very conveniently in a blank book. If it is large and constantly growing or changing, it is best kept on cards, a card to each journal, and all alphabetically arranged. It saves much trouble when dealing with an agency to have subscriptions coincide with the calendar year, disregarding the volume arrangements of the publishers.
List of periodicals for a small library
[See also chapter List of things needed in beginning work.]
Century magazine (monthly), illus. N. Y. Century Co. Ed. by R. W. Gilder, $4.
Harper's new monthly magazine, illus. N. Y. Harper. Ed. by H. M. Alden, $4.
Harper's round table (monthly), illus. N. Y. Harper, $1.
St Nicholas (monthly), illus. N. Y. Century Co. Ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge, $3.