20 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



IX.— PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and 

 Description of the Collections, and Account 

 OF Objects added to them in the Year 1906 

 (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. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 

 70,831 ; in addition to which 42,484 press-marks have been 

 altered in consequence of changes and re-arrangements 

 carried out in the Library ; 25,412 labels have been affixed 

 to books and volumes of newspapers, and 119,107 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 ; 18,503 books have been 

 thus marked during the year, and the corresponding altera- 

 tions, amounting to 97,797, have been carried out in General 

 and Hand Catalogues ; 2,885 index-slips have been written 

 for London Newspapers. 



The number of stamps impressed upon the articles received 

 has been 428,403. 



4,720 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — (a) Cataloguing. — 43,742 titles have 

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

 title and to a cross-reference). Of these, 31,986 were written 

 for the General Catalogue, 2,347 for the Map Catalogue, and 

 9,409 for the Music Catalogue. 



(h) Printing.— 26,468 titles and 1,122 index-slips for the 

 General Catalogue, and 13,814 for the Music Catalogue have 

 been prepared for printing during the year ; and 36,460 titles 

 and 1,039 index-slips fo]- the General Catalogue, 4,802 titles 

 for the Map Catalogue, and 13,814 for the Music Catalogue 

 have been printed. 



Another volume of the Subject Index, embracing the 

 period 1901-1905, and containing 51,400 entries, was published 

 in 1900. 



