14 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



XI. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Description 

 OF THE Collections and Account of Objects added 

 to them in the year 1919 (Bloomsbury). 



Department of Printed Books. 



I. Arrangement. — The works added to the collection during the 

 past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the shelves of the 

 Library according to the system of classification adopted in the 

 Museum. 



The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, have been 

 marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each volume. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 56,810 ; in 

 addition to which 50,821 press-marks have been altered on books 

 and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and re-arrange- 

 ments carried out in the Library ; 37,512 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 37,056 obliterated labels 

 have been renewed. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is 

 341,111. 



7,755 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in the 

 course of the year. 



II. Cataloguing. — 37,905 titles have been written for the 

 General (catalogue and for the Catalogues of Maps and Music. 



Printing. — 22,806 titles and index-slips for^ the General, and 

 3,063 for the Map, Catalogue have been printed during the year. 



Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 21,713 title-slips and index- 

 slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies of this 

 Catalogue. This has rendered it necessary, in order to maintain as 

 far as possible the alphabetical arrangement, to re-arrange 45,560 

 title-slips and index-slips in each copy and to add to each copy 634 

 new leaves. 



The system of monthly incorporation of accessions, inaugurated 

 in April, 1915, was carried out regularly throughout the year. 



Map Catalogue. — 2,414 titles have been written for this catalogue, 

 and 1,488 title-slips have been incorporated into each of three copies 

 of it. This has rendered it necessary to re-arrange 1,898 title-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 27 new leaves. 



Music Catalogue. — 7,507 titles have been written for this 

 Catalogue. 22,247 title-slips have been relaid on 1,489 new 

 leaves. 



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

 mounted on cards, are arranged in order of press-marks, 20,300 

 have been so mounted, and 22,740 have been incorporated in their 

 proper order. 



