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Date of|Borrowers’|Date of||Date of|Borrowers’|Date of||
Issue. | No. |Return.||Issue. | No. |Return.||
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4 May | 395 |18 May || | | ||
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6 June | 3421 | || | | ||
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Every book has a page or more, according to popularity, and there can
hardly be a doubt of its superiority to the personal ledger, because the
question of a book’s whereabouts is more often raised than what book a
given reader has. Dates of issue and return are stamped, and all books
are available for issue on return. The borrowers’ cards, if kept in dated
trays as above, show at once “overdues” and who have books out. But the
“overdues” can be ascertained also by periodical examination of the
ledger. In this system book ledgers are as handy as cards. In both of
the ledger systems above described classified day sheets for statistical
purposes are used. They are generally ruled thus:—