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A Guide to the Use of the Beading Boovi. 



Unbound numbers or files of newspapers are not available 

 except under special circumstances. About a quarter of a million 

 numbers of newspapers are received and bound each year. It is 

 a difficult matter to produce a single number or a small file when 

 they are in the binders' hands, and application should not be made 

 for them without urgent reason. When it is absolutely necessary 

 to make such an application it should be addressed to the 

 Superintendent of the Reading Room. 



NEWSPAPER REPOSITORY, HENDON. 



English Provincial, Scotch, Irish and Welsh Newspapers, as 

 well as certain Colonial and Foreign Newspapers, are stored at 

 the Hendon Repository, as are also the Poll-books of the United 

 Kingdom. Those which are required are available on Wednesday 

 morning of each week, and will be kept in the Newspaper Room 

 as long as they are in use. Applications for these newspapers 

 should be addressed to the Superintendent of the Reading Room, 

 and should reach him on or before Monday afternoon. In cases 

 of great urgency, newspapers stored at Hendon may be consulted 

 at the Repository. In such cases application for the necessary 

 permission must be made to the Superintendent of the Reading 

 Room, who will ascertain whether the number or file of the 

 newspaper required is in the Repository, and will direct the 

 applicant how to go there. 



COLONIAL AND FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS. 



The majority of these are stored in the General Library, cata- 

 logued under the heading Peeiodical Publications, and supplied 

 to readers in the ordinary way in the Circular Reading Room. 



MAP ROOM. 



The Catalogue of Maps, Atlases, Charts and Plans is described 

 above, p. 17. 



A selection of the Atlases generally in use will be found in the 

 Reading Room, presses 2059-2060. Atlases, • etc., in the Map 

 Room or General Library, if they are of a size to be conveniently 

 used in the Reading Room, are supplied to readers in the ordinary 

 way. If a reader desires to see maps or charts on a large scale, 

 or requires a considerable number, or asks for expert assistance in 

 examining them, he should enquire for the Map Room, which 

 is situated in the new King Edward VII. wing. 



LISTS OF SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 



In addition to the official catalogues described above, all the 

 bibliographical monographs for which space can be found are 

 placed in the Reading Room. 



