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After this is all over, the books, still remaining 

 grouped according to their " funds," are ready to have 

 the " seals " put in. The seal is the label of owner- 

 ship, bearing the seal of the university and the name 

 of the fund or other source from which the book has 

 been procured, and is pasted on the inside of the 

 front cover. Above it, in the left corner, is pasted a 

 little blank corner-piece, on which is to be marked in 

 pencil the number of the alcove and shelf where 

 the book is to be placed, or " set up." 



To set up a book on a shelf is no doubt a very 

 simple matter, yet it involves something more than 

 the mere placing of the volume on the shelf. Each 

 alcove in the library has a " shelf-catalogue," or list 

 of all the books in the alcove, arranged by shelves. 

 Such a catalogue is indispensable in determining 

 whether each shelf has its proper complement of 

 volumes, and whether, at the end of the year, all the 

 books are in their proper places. When the book is 

 duly entered on this shelf-catalogue, and has its 

 corner-piece marked, it is at last ready to be " cata- 

 logued." After our lot of three or four hundred 

 books have been treated in this way, they are 

 delivered to the principal assistant, who parcels 

 them out among various subordinate assistants for 

 cataloguing. 



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