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Renewal slips and post-cards, and bespoke cards or forms require no
description.
_Information circulars_ and _readers’ handbooks_ are becoming more and
more general, and many useful documents of the kind have been issued.
The object of all is to direct attention to the library, its uses, and
contents, while making more public the rules, newspapers taken, hours of
opening, &c. The little handbooks issued from Manchester, Boston (U.S.),
Glasgow, and elsewhere, are models.
The barest reference will suffice for such articles as book-marks,
cloth or paper, overdue notices and post-cards, issue returns, branch
library returns, infectious diseases notification forms, and stock-taking
returns, all of which are almost explained by their names. It should be
stated as a curious fact that very many persons object to having notices
of overdue books or defaulting borrowers sent on post-cards, while others
think a charge for the postage of such notices an imposition. Any young
librarian desirous of obtaining specimens of these or any other forms
will always be sure to get them on application at the various libraries.
The Museum, as before stated, contains a number of all kinds of forms.
As regards ordinary STATIONERY it is hardly necessary to say much.
Note-paper is usually stamped with the library arms, and envelopes
with the name on the flap. Pens, ink, pencils, rulers, date-cases,
paper-knives, &c., are all so familiar that it would be waste of time to
consider them separately. Any intelligent librarian will find endless
suggestion and profit from a visit to a large stationer’s warehouse, and
may even pick up wrinkles of some value by keeping his eyes open to the
adaptability of many articles of manufactured stationery.