DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 17 



IX. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Cata- 

 loguing OF Collections, and Additions made to 

 THEM, in the Year 1893. (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 classifica- 

 tion 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 ; also on the title-slips. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 

 84,630 ; in addition to which 34,652 press-marks have been 

 altered, in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 32,296 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 73,633 obliterated 

 labels have been renewed. 



The process of attaching third-marks to the books in the 

 New Library, with the view of accelerating their delivery 

 to readers, has been continued ; 12,576 books have been 

 thus marked during the year, and the corresponding altera- 

 tions, amounting to 40,408, have been carried out in the 

 General and Hand Catalogues ; 1,551 volumes of country 

 newspapers have also been numbered, and for London and 

 country newspapers 3,631 index-slips have been written. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received 

 has been 410,827. 



About 3,100 presses of books and newspapers have been 

 dusted in the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — {a.) Cataloguing. — 60,630 titles have 

 been written (the term "title" applying equally to a main 

 title and to a cross reference). Of these, 44,605 were written 

 for the General Catalogue, 3,382 for the Map Catalogue, and 

 12,643 for the Music Catalogue. 



{h.) Printing. — 40,253 titles and 735 index-titles for the 

 General Catalogue, and 3,144 titles for the Map Catalogue, 

 have been prepared for printing during the year, upon the 

 plan announced in the Statement of Progress for 1879 ; and 

 40,477 title-slips and 756 index-slips for the General Cata- 

 logue, and 1,278 title-slips for the Map Catalogue were 

 printed off. 



Progress has also been made in printing the whole Cata- 

 logue in alphabetical sequence from the beginning. With 

 the exception of the headings " England," " France," " Great 



0.107. B Britain," 



