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cabinets and sheaf catalogues will cease, and progress will 
consequently be more rapid. The amount of work to be 
accomplished is very great, and must take several years. The 
importance of it, as well as the urgency, are fully recognised, but 
the Committee feel that it would be a serious mistake to sacrifice 
accuracy for speed. The result of one year’s work has, however, 
justified the Committee in augmenting the cataloguing staff and 
making arrangements which, while securing continuity for the 
work, will accelerate it. 
In addition to the work on the main catalogue of the Reference 
Library, other important cataloguing work is in progress. The 
Coleman deeds relating to Lancashire and Cheshire (numbering 418), 
which the Committee purchased in January, have been calendared 
by Mr. John Brownbill. Sheaf catalogues (typed) of the prints and 
portraits in the Hornby Library are well advanced, while a hand-list 
of books of reference in the Picton Reading Room has been printed, 
and indexes to Parliamentary publications and other series have 
been compiled. Catalogues of the books in the Depét, in the 
Wavertree Branch Library, and of the books in the Juvenile 
Departments of the Everton and Toxteth Libraries, have been 
published during the year. 
The Committee have complied with the suggestions of the West 
Lancashire Association Territorial Force, and added to the already 
large collection of works on military subjects in the Libraries. 
Purchases have also been made to meet the requirements of various 
reading and educational classes. 
During the winter various societies have visited the Reference 
Library, when displays of books on their special subjects have been 
made. Amongst these societies may be named the Artists, the 
Brickworkers, the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, and 
the National Home Reading Union. In this way Students had 
opportunities to obtain knowledge of the literature on their 
subjects, and the subsequent demands in the Picton Reading Room 
proved that the opportunities had been utilised. 
