20 A Guide to the Use of the Beading Boom. 



There are certain cases in which the ticket cannot be filled in 

 quite so simply as in the above example. These are : — 



(a) When the book required forms part of a series. In such 

 cases it is desirable to write the name of the series and the number 

 of the volume (when given). For instance : — 



Camden Society, Vol. 7. 

 Hayward, Annals, 1840. 



{b) Should the work required be a chapter, article, or other 

 portion of a book or periodical, neither the author's name nor the 

 title of the chapter or article should be given. Thus, if the work 

 required were the chapter in the ninth volume of the Cambridge 

 Modern History " entitled The Napoleonic Codes," the ticket 

 should be written thus : — 



Cambridge Modern History. Vol. 9. 1906. 



Or, to take the case of an article in a periodical, if the work 

 required were Deutsch's article on the Talmud in the " Quarterly 

 Keview," the ticket should read : — 



Quarterly Eeview. Vol. 123. 1867. 



(c) Eeaders have already been advised (p. 12) when looking 

 for a book under a long or complicated heading to refer, if possible, 

 to a cross reference from an editor or translator, rather than to 

 look for the entry under the main heading. The example given 

 above is The New Testament. Text revised by B. F. Westcott 

 and F. J. A. Hort." But in filling in the ticket from the cross- 

 reference from Westcott or Hort, it may save a possible mistake 

 by the attendant who fetches the book from the shelf if the main 

 heading is given on the ticket, thus : — 



Bible, New Test. Eevised by Westcott and Hort. 1909. 



To give another example. If a reader wants Sir Theodore Martin's 

 translation of Faust he will do well to turn to the cross reference 

 from Sir T. Martin, rather than to the main heading, Goethe. 

 But he should write his ticket thus : — 



Goethe. 



Faust. Translated by T. Martin. 1870. 



As soon as the tickets have been filled in they should be 

 deposited in one of the boxes which stand on each side of the 

 Central Desk. 



