8 A Guide to the Use of the Beadmg Boom. 



Tickets are granted for various periods, ranging from a single 

 day to six months. At the end of the period for which they are 

 granted (or earher if the reader has completed his work) they 

 should be returned to the Director. A reader who wishes to 

 continue to use the Beading Eoom should send the expiring ticket 

 and ask for its renewal. Unless there be any reason to the 

 contrary the ticket will be re-dated and returned. If immediate 

 renewal is not required, the ticket should be returned, and can be 

 renewed on simple application when desired. Once granted, the 

 renewal of a ticket, whether it be applied for immediately after its 

 expiration or at a later period, does not involve the production of 

 a fresh recommendation. 



When coming to the Beading Boom readers should always 

 bring their tickets of admission with them. 



HOUBS OF OPENING, LIGHTING, Etc. 



The Beading Boom is open every week day throughout the 

 year except Good Friday, Christmas Day, or any special occasion 

 appointed by authority, except also the first four week days of 

 March and September, when it is closed for cleaning. The hours 

 during which the Boom is open will, when pre- War conditions 

 have been re-established, extend from nine in the morning until 

 seven in the evening throughout the year. 



The Beading Boom is lighted by five electric arc lamps and 325 

 glow lamps. 



The books on the three floors of the Beading Boom, forming a 

 selected collection of about 60,000 reference and standard books, 

 are always obtainable, irrespective of fog or darkness. With 

 regard to the other portions of the Library, in which the electric 

 light is not yet installed, books are supplied up to such hours as 

 the daylight permits. 



Specially rare and valuable books cannot, as a rule, be supplied 

 after 4.30 p.m. throughout the year, as the " North Library," 

 in which alone such books can be consulted, closes at 5 p.m. 

 {see p. 24). Beaders who cannot reach the Beading Boom before 

 the hours specified above, but who have previously taken notes of 

 the titles and press-marks of the books which they require, can 

 secure that the books shall be retained for them by sending applica- 

 tions by post addressed to the Superintendent (posted in time to be 

 delivered some hours in advance of the time at which the books 

 are required). In writing tickets for books beforehand, no seat 

 mark can be given. In place of this the tickets should be marked 

 Bar. They will be delivered at the reader's seat on application 

 at one of the two counters known as Bar A. or Bar T. 



SEATS IN THE BEADING BOOM. 



The first thing that a reader should do when he enters the 

 Beading Boom is to retain a seat. The room is fitted with 



