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A Guide to the Use of the Beading Boom. 



KEPT BOOKS. 



If a reader, whep he leaves the Beading Boom, has not finished 

 with any of his books, he should ask that they may be " kept " for 

 him. This is secured by the simple process of writing his name 

 on small shps, which he will find at the Centre Desk, and inserting 

 one such slip in each of the books which he wishes to be reserved. 



The books will then be placed under his name in one of the 

 pigeon-holes in the passage leading from the Centre to the 

 Library. The tickets should be preserved by the reader; and, 

 when the books are again required, all that is necessary is to alter 

 the seat-mark on each ticket and to place the tickets in one of 

 the two baskets labelled Kept Books. The book will then be 

 delivered to the reader at his seat. By this means each reader 

 can reserve as many as twelve or fifteen books from day to day, 

 so long as he requires them. 



During the four first week-days of March and September, when 

 the Beading Boom is closed for cleaning, all " kept books " are 

 returned to the shelves for the half-yearly stocktaking of the 

 Library. It must be understood that books are reserved in this 

 manner on the condition that no other reader applies for them in 

 the absence of the person for whom they are "kept." Should 

 such application be made, the books are given to the reader who 

 has apphed for them. 



In addition to the Circular Beading Boom, the following rooms 

 in the Department of Printed Books are allotted to the use of 

 readers. 



THE NOBTH LIBBABY. 



In the North Library there is a second Beading Boom reserved 

 for those who are using the following classes of books : — 



(a) Specially valuable books or books in sumptuous bindings. 

 {h) Books of a size too large to be conveniently handled in the 

 Beading Boom. 



(c) Books too many in number to be used at a reader's desk 

 or table in the Beading Boom. 



{d) Unbound parts or any other books or periodicals which 

 cannot with safety be sent to the Beading Boom. 



NEWSPAPEB BEADING BOOM. 



The present Neiuspaper Beading Boom is in the White Wing 

 at the eastern end of the Manuscript Saloon.^ 



* It is proposed to remove the Newspaper Reading Room to the new 

 King Edward VII. Galleries as soon as the necessary accommodation can be 

 provided there. 



