ticularly for home
use, to tell whether the library owns certain books; but with a good
card catalog, newspaper lists, special lists, and the like, it is not
a necessity. Few large libraries now publish complete catalogs.

CHAPTER XXXII

Charging system

On the inside of the front cover of every book in the library paste a
manilla pocket. (See Library Bureau catalog.) Or paste, by the bottom
and the upper corners, thus making a pocket of it, a sheet of plain,
stout paper at the bottom of the first page of the first flyleaf. On
this pocket, at the top, write the call-number of the book. Below
this print information for borrowers, if this seems necessary. In this
pocket place a book-card of heavy ledger paper or light cardboard. On
this book-card, at the top, write the call-number of the book in the
pocket of which it is placed.

[Illustration: Card-pocket. (Reduced; actual size, 7 x 13-1/2 cm.)

CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

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EXTRACT FROM CITY ORDINANCE.

SEC. 1.--Any person who shall willfully or maliciously cut, write
upon, injure, deface, tear, or destroy any Book, Newspaper, Plate,
Picture, Engraving, or Statue belonging to the Chicago Public Library,
shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than
fifty dollars for every such offense.

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EXTRACT FROM RULES.

27.--Books may be retained two weeks, and may be once renewed for the
same period.

30.--A fine of three cents a day shall be paid on each work, whether
bound in one or more volumes, which is not returned according to the
provisions of the preceding rules; and no other book will be delivered
to the party incurring the fine until it is paid. * * *

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RECEIVED.

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Acme Library Card Pocket.
Under Pat. Sept. 26, '76, "Ref. Index File."
Made by LIBRARY BUREAU,
125 Franklin St., Chicago

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Keep your Card In this Pocket.]

To every borrower the library issues a borrower's card. This card is
made of heavy, colored tag-board, and contains the borrowers' name and
address, and his number in the series of borrowers' numbers.

The librarian, before delivering a book to a borrower, takes from the
pocket the book-card, writes on it the number found at the top of the
borrower's card, and after it, with a dater, stamps the day