* "Delect ANT domi, non dipediunt fork, * * * peregrin axttb, rusticantur." 



CiCEBO, Orat. pro Archia Poet. vii. 16. 



LENDING DEPARTMENT of the PUBLIC LIBRARY of VICTORIA. 



The Lending Department is conducted on a system different from that in 

 common use elsewhere. No single volumes are lent out ; thus the heavy 

 charge of supplying numerous copies of the same work, the expense and trouble 

 of daily issuing, receiving, checking, and collating the books, the onerous and 

 invidious references as to the respectability of the borrowers, the requisitions 

 and guarantees, the inconvenience arising from detention and loss of volumes, and 

 consequent irksome necessity for enforcing fines and compensation are all avoided. 



Books, in numbers varj-ing from 100 to 200, or 300, are lent to Public 

 Libraries, Mechanics' Institutes, or Athenaeums, for periods extending over 

 three, four, or six months, with further extension of time if required, on the 

 conditions given below. 



They are well bound in green morocco leather without letter pieces. On the 

 upper side is the full motto." They are packed in cases of oak, bound with brass, 

 lined vnih green baize ; the shelves are of such depth that the books are not 

 allowed to suffer from friction in travelling. 



Each case contains about fifty volumes. The weight being on an average about 

 112 lbs., and having strong handles at the sides, the case is raised without difliculty 

 by one man. It is closed with a sliding door, on the inside of which is a list of 

 the books in the case, and a printed form of the conditions of the loan. Each 

 case is covered with a waterproof tarpaulin, to protect it while on its journey. 

 \Mien placed back to back on a table, or one on the other, and the doors are 

 removed, the cases serve as open bookcases, and there is consequently no necessity 

 to remove the books to place them on other shelves. 



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