A Guide to the Use of the Beading Boom. 



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Under no circumstances may a book of any description be 

 taken out of the Beading Eoom. To take a book out of the 

 British Museum is a penal offence. No book or other object 

 belonging to the Trustees can be removed from the British 

 Museum except under a subpoena from a properly constituted 

 Court of Law, in which case it is taken to the Court, exhibited 

 and brought back, by a member of the staff. 



TEACING. 



If a reader desires to make a tracing from a book, map, etc., 

 he should apply to the Superintendent, who will supply the proper 

 form of application. Tracing is permitted only in pencil. 



PHOTOGEAPHY. 



The regulations as to photographing books or other objects 

 which are the property of the Trustees will be found on pp. 57, 58. 

 The British Museum employs no official photographer. If desired, 

 the Superintendent of the Eeading Eoom will give the address of 

 one or other of the photographers who are accustomed to work in 

 the Museum. 



DESIDEEATA. 



A book marked " Libri Desiderati " will be found on the desk 

 at the end of Circle 84. Eeaders are requested to enter in this 

 book the name of any work which is not in the Library and which 

 appears to be a desirable acquisition. In making an entry in this 

 book, readers are asked, if possible, to add any reference or source 

 of information which may assist the officials of the Library to 

 identify it. Newly published books (English or foreign) should 

 not be entered unless they are printed in some remote locality or 

 are so little known that they might otherwise escape notice. 



EETUEN OF BOOKS. 



Before leaving the Eeading Eoom for the day (or as soon as 

 books are no longer required) readers must restore to an official 

 at the Centre Desk all books, maps, etc., other than those taken 

 from the open shelves of the Eeading Eoom, and must see that all 

 their tickets for these books are returned to them. It must be 

 remembered that these tickets are receipts for books delivered, and 

 that readers are responsible for the books until they have exchanged 

 them for the tickets. 



