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 provide for keeping a record of issues for statistical purposes?

5. In a library having a staff composed of both sexes, what ordinary routine work would you apportion to the female members?

6. Write out a specimen page of a Library Committee Minute Book, or so much of a page as would show the heading and introductory paragraphs of an ordinary committee meeting in their usual order, or what you consider to be the best order in which to arrange them.

7. State briefly what account-books you consider necessary to keep the accounts of a medium-sized free library, or (alternatively) a subscription library, in satisfactory order. Show the relation of these various books to each other and to the annual balance-sheet.

8. What do you consider the best method of filing correspondence, so that it may be easily accessible and give ready reference to the replies sent.

9. Describe briefly what you consider the best method of recording fines received from readers in a lending library, together with the account-books necessary for keeping such records and carrying the amounts received to Income Account. What form of receipt would you give to readers who pay fines?

Classes 3 to 7. Time 2 hours.

1. In planning a small town library, specify what departments you would propose for adoption, and any general requirements for such a building which are indispensable. Make a rough plan of the main floor of the proposed building on which your ideas of necessary departments and requirements are to be clearly marked.

2. Describe, and give rulings of, at least two distinct ledger systems of registering or charging books to borrowers in a lending library.