MEETING AT HEADQUARTERS, MAY 18th. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. THE THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ILDEN DOUNDATIONS. TIBRARY THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Library Assistants' Association. Annual Subscription, including postage to any address, either at Home or Abroad, 3s. Entered at Stationers' Hall, and at New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. No. 77. A FEW TESTIMONIALS, The Indicator. "LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE. FITTINGS AND FURNITURE." BY F. J. BURGOYNE. "The Cotgreave Indicator is that in use in the majority of the British Free Libraries."¡ "THE SCOTSMAN." "All the London Free Public Libraries which use indicators, except one, have adopted the Cotgreave System, which has been found to work well."+ N.B. See also "Greater London," by E. Walford, M.A., F.S.A. (page 360); "Methods of Social Reform," by Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, M.A., F.R.S., LL.D.; "Public Libraries," by T. Greenwood, F.R.G.S.; &c., &c. As a matter of fact it will be found in about nine-tenths of the Libraries using Indicators Over 350 Institutions are now using it. Recently adopted at the Birmingham, Cologne, and many other Libraries. + Sixty-two Public Libraries in London and the Metropolitan area are using it. The Simplex Shelf Supports The Shelves can be raised or lowered by one person without moving or disarranging a single book, and in half the time required by any other system. No space is lost; no mechanism to get jammed, or otherwise out of order, or nip the fingers: no danger to Bindings by projecting metal or wooden fittings; no tilting of shelves. The Fittings are entirely out of sight when the Books are in position, unless more space is allowed between the shelves than is generally required. While No. 1 is perhaps best for very heavy books, No. 2 is quite safe for ordinary books, and is cheaper and more readily fitted. Two-thirds of the woodwork required with other designs is saved, while the cost of joinery is greatly reduced. It can be fitted to iron stacks. The Contents-Subject Index TO GENERAL AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Large Post 8vo., Cloth, Gilt (750 pp.), 10s. 6d. A limited number will be supplied to Library Assistants at 3s. 6d. ACADEMY." We consider that the author has done a great service to literary workers an students." WESTMINSTER REVIEW." It has been left to Mr. Cotgreave to compile a work which supplies precisely the in ormation required by the general reader." SATURDAY REVIEW."It represents a vast amount of work, and will be prized by students of current literature." PUBLIC OPINION." We nave nothing but praise for this work.” BOOKMAN.--"Such a work as this is of inestimable value to librarians." SCHOOL GUARDIAN. This is a very valuable book of reference." Views and Memoranda of Public Libraries (several hundred illustrations). Subscription price 7/6, when published 10/6 net. Full particulars of the above and also of other Library Aids sent upon application to the LIBRARY AIDS CO., 166a, Romford Road, Stratford, London, E. ANNUAL MEETING, ST. BRIDE INSTITUTE, JUNE 22nd. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Library Assistants' Association. Annual Subscription, including postage to any address, either at Home or Abroad, 3s. Entered at Stationers' Hall, and at New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. No. 78. A FEW TESTIMONIALS, The Indicator. 66 LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION, ArchitecturE. FITTINGS AND FURNITURE." By F. J. BURGOYNE. The Cotgreave Indicator is that in use in the majority of the British Free Libraries.' "THE SCOTSMAN." All the London Free Public Libraries which use indicators, except one, have adopted the Cotgreave System, which has been found to work well."+ N.B. See also "Greater London," by E. Walford, M.A., F.S.A. (page 360); "Methods of Social Reform," by Prof. W. Stanley Jevons, M.A., F.R.S., LL.D.; "Public Libraries," by T. Greenwood, F.R.G.S.; &c., &c. As a matter of fact it will be found in about nine-tenths of the Libraries using Indicators Over 350 Institutions are now using it. Recently adopted at the Birmingham, Cologne, and many other, Libraries. + Sixty-two Public Libraries in London and the Metropolitan area are using it. The Simplex Shelf Supports The Shelves can be raised or lowered by one person without moving or disarranging a single book, and in half the time required by any other system. No space is lost; no mechanism to get jammed, or otherwise out of order, or nip the fingers: no danger to Bindings by projecting metal or wooden fittings; no tilting of shelves. The Fittings are entirely out of sight when the Books are in position, unless more space is allowed between the shelves than is generally required. While No. 1 is perhaps best for very heavy books, No. 2 is quite safe for ordinary books, and is cheaper and more readily fitted. Two-thirds of the woodwork required with other designs is saved, while the cost of joinery is greatly reduced. It can be fitted to iron stacks. The Contents-Subject_Index TO GENERAL AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE. Large Post 8vo., Cloth, Gilt (750 pp.), 10s. 6d. A limited number will be supplied to Library Assistants at 3s. 6d. ACADEMY." We consider that the author has done a great service to literary workers an students." WESTMINSTER REVIEW." It has been left to Mr. Cotgreave to compile a work which supplies precisely the in ormation required by the general reader.” SATURDAY REVIEW.-"It represents a vast amount of work, and will be prized by students of current literature." PUBLIC OPINION.--" We have nothing but praise for this work." BOOKMAN.-" Such a work as this is of inestimable value to librarians." SCHOOL GUARDIAN." This is a very valuable book of reference." Views and Memoranda of Public Libraries (several hundred illustrations). Subscription price 7/6, when published 10/6 net. Full particulars of the above and also of other Library Aids sent upon application to the LIBRARY AIDS CO., 166a, Romford Road, Stratford, London, E. PUBLISHED MONTHLY THE NEW YORK STOR, LENOX AND THE LIBRARY THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Library Assistants' Association. Annual Subscription, including postage to any address, either at Home or Abroad, 3s. Entered at Stationers' Hall, and at New York Post Office as Second Class Matter. No. 79. |