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Shelf Catalogue. — For this Catalogue, in which the title-sHps, 

 mounted on cards, are arranged in order o£ press-marks, 24,863 

 have been so mounted, and 25,342 have been incorporated in their 

 proper order. 



Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Centura/. — Part IV. o£ 

 this Catalogue, rafentioned in the last Report as having been passed 

 through the press, has been published. No work has been done on 

 the Catalogue during the year. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets o£ pamphlets 

 sent to be bound in the course o£ the year was 13,805, including 

 3,719 volumes o£ newspapers. In consequence o£ the frequent 

 adoption o£ the plan o£ binding two or more volumes in one, the 

 number of volumes returned was 10,612. In addition, 600 volumes 

 have been repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the 

 Library itself : — 5,073 volumes have been repaired, 7,409 cleaned 

 and polished, and 5,933 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been bound in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, &c., have also been bound or mounted 

 during the year : — 23 atlases and 139 volumes of the 6-inch and 

 25-inch Ordnance Survey have been bound ; in addition, 226 parts 

 of the 1-inch Ordnance Survey and 259 general maps have been 

 mounted on linen in 1,784 sheets, and 45 maps have been mounted 

 on cards in 537 sheets. 



41,967 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been made up 

 into 1,087 parcels, and 1,080 parcels have been tied up and labelled. 



Seven volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up and 

 re-bound. 120 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumulation 

 of titles under certain headings. 17 volumes of the Music Catalogue 

 have been re-bound in 20 new volumes. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes replaced in 

 the General Library after use in the Reading Room was 433,307 ; 

 in the King's Library, 15,537 ; in the Grenville Library, 1,875 ; in 

 the Map Room, 2,678 ; in the presses in which books are kept from 

 day to day for the use of readers, 571,173 ; and in the Oriental 

 Department, 3,040; making a total of 1,027,610 volumes supplied 

 to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the readers 

 have personal access on the shelves of the Reading Room. 



The number of readers during the year was 134,501, giving an 

 average of 443 daily, the room having been open on 303 days. 



JVewspaper Room. — The number of readers during the year was 

 9,461, giving a daily average of 32, the room having been open on 

 303 days. The number of volumes replaced after use was 43,400, 

 giving a daily average of 144, not reckoning volumes taken from 

 the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers themselves. In 

 addition, 1,138 country newspapers were brought up to the Library 

 from the Repository at Hendon for the use of readers. 



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