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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



The following catalogues are kept: 



1. Two copies of an author's catalogue (exclusive of medicine), one 

 of which is upon cards for use of employees, and the other in 138 Ru- 

 dolph indexer book's for the public in the large reading room (48) of 

 the second story. 



2. A (jeneral dictionary catalogue (exclusive of medicine) in Rudolph 

 continuous indexers and in Rudolph indexer books for the public 

 in the large reading room. In this, therefore, are found authors, 

 titles, subjects, and references arranged in a single alphabetical series. 

 This catalogue contains 450,000 to 500,000 entries and when complete 

 will fill 10 Rudolph continuous indexers and 500 Rudolph indexer 

 books. For practical well-considered reasons, which I have no space 

 to enter into here, all of the strips which have 10 or more typewritten 

 lines are arranged in the books, and all shorter ones in the indexer. 



Fie. 54.— Newberry Library. Catalogue in book form (Rudolph index book) . 



3. Two copies of a shelf catalogue^2iQ,Q,ox^va^ to the Cutter system — 

 that is, a subject catalogue of all independent works, with exception 

 of those relating to medicine, in 392 Rudolph indexer books — one copj^^ 

 for the employees, and one distributed through the various divisions 

 of the library for the public. 



4. Catalogue of the division of inedicine.- — {ci) A dictionary cata- 

 logue on 17,800 cards — authors, titles, subjects, and references in 

 one alphabet; (h) A dictionary catalogue of the Senn Library, on 8,200 

 cards; {c) An author's catalogue of all pamphlets, on 13,000 cards; {d) 

 An author's catalogue of all pamphlets of the Senn Library, on 14,000 

 cards; {e) A shelf catalogue of all medical books, on 7,000 cards; {f) 

 A catalogue of periodicals, on 2,000 cards. There are therefore 62,000 

 cards of the division of medicine for the use of the public. 



5. A subject card-catalogue of the museum collection with all possible 

 details of data, made in 5 copies, each having over 3,000 cards, placed 

 in various parts of the library where it can be of use to the public. 



