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IX. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Description 

 OF the Collections, and Account of Objects 

 ADDED TO THEM in the Year 1914 (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 75,603 ; 

 in addition to which 91,566 press-marks have been altered, 

 on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and 

 re-arrangements carried out in the Library ; 28,650 labels have 

 been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 113,904 

 obliterated labels have been renewed. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received i3 

 539,856. 



4,525 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — Cataloguing. — 42,063 titles have been 

 written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of 

 Maps and Music. 



Printing. — 41,856 titles and index-slips for the General 

 Catalogue, and 16,041 for the Music Catalogue, have been 

 prepared for printing during the year ; and 41,360 titles and 

 index-slips for the General Catalogue. 1,917 for the Map 

 Catalogue, and 12,901 for the Music Catalogue, have been 

 printed. 



Reprinting. — 500 columns, including the headings America 

 (77 columns), Honore de Balzac (16 columns), Canada (67 

 columns), and United States of America (309 columns) have 

 been revised and reprinted. 



Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 41,777 title-slips and 

 index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies 

 of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary^ 

 in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, to remove and re-insert 52,406 title-slips and index-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 576 new leaves. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to 

 the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during 

 the year. 



