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A Library Primer

CHAPTER XXXI
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Lists, bulletins, printed catalog Give the public access to the card catalog if possible.

If a dictionary catalog is made it will prove to be most helpful to the serious students.

For the average reader, the person who wishes to get a recent book, the latest novel, etc., prepare lists of additions from month to month, post them up in some convenient place in the library, and put them in a binder to be left on desk or table in the delivery room.
Print lists of additions, if possible, in the local papers; also publish reference lists having to do with current events and matters of popular interest.

Oftentimes the newspapers will furnish, for a small sum, extra copies of the lists which they have printed.

If the means warrant the expenditure, a periodical bulletin, appearing once a month, or even oftener, containing information about the library, notes on recent additions, suggestions as to the use of books, lists on special subjects, and lists of books lately added may prove useful.
Such a bulletin can often be maintained without cost to the library by having it published by some one who will pay its expenses by means of advertisements.


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