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relative location is practically universal in the United States; and has 
also been adopted by some of the modern English free libraries, the 
newer portions of the Cambridge University Library, and in the Biblio- 
thèque Nationale. In the fixed location system, the books are arranged 
in definite book-cases, each of which has a number or letter which forms 
part of the press-mark of the book. In the relative location, the books 
are arranged not with regard to any particular book-case or shelf, but 
with regard to each other. They run along the shelves, free from either 
the wasteful gaps, or inconvenient crowding, inevitable in the fixed 
location. 
“Tf you are troubled with a pride of accuracy, and would have it com- 
pletely taken out of you, print a catalogue.’’—Henry Stevens. 

References on Cataloguing and Classification :— 
Cataloguing : Enc. Britt., XIV., pp. 537, 539. 
Report U.S. Libraries, p. 399 (special and complete catalogues); 
425; 489 (cataloguing); 495 (shelf lists); 496 (finding lists). 497 
(printed catalogues); 512 (cataloguing college libraries); 552 
(printed or MSS.?); 645 (subject catalogues); 648 (dictionary 
catalogues): 657, 660 (classed catalogues). 
Papers prepared for World’s Lib. Cong., 826 et seq. 
Library Administration, by J. Macfarlane, London, 1898; p. 78. 
How to Catalogue a Library, by H. B. Wheatley, London, 1889. 
Denver Library Hand-Book, pp. 59 (card catalogues); 108-111 
(what questions a catalogue should answer, etc.) ; 117-120 
(dictionary catalogue). 
Essays in Librarianship, by Dr. R. Garnett, London (1899), pp. 
83, 84, 109-114 (British Museum catalogue). 
The Free Library, by J. J. Ogle, London (1897), p. 125. 
Home Education Report (Univ. of State of N.Y.), 1899, p. 89 (card 
catalogues). 
Classification: Enc. Britt., III., 661. 
How to Catalogue a Library (Wheatley), 47. 
Report U.S. Libraries, 492, 623 et seq. 
Denwer Library Hand-Book, 112-115, 124. 
Library Administration (Marfarlane), 148. 
Hssays in Librarianship (Garnett), 210 et seq. 
Papers prepared for World’s Lib. Cong., 861. At p. 893 will be 
found a very full list of references on classification. 
Sec. II., 1902. 3. 
