242|INDEX Picot (£.), Rapfort on the author- catalogue of the Biblioth^que Nationale, 99 Plays not issued at the Biblio- th^ue Nationale, 193 Poems not issued at the Vienna Library, 19^ Polain (M. ) criticises Dewey system, 123 Pollard ( A. W. ) " On the Exhibition of Facsimiles of Rare Books," 199 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, its library school, 29 Preservation of books, 223-33 Presses, sliding, at the &itish Museum, 164 Press-marks : In their relation to the supply of books to readers, 187 Nature of, 172 System of, at the British Museimi, 151 Printers' waste, 226 Printing : Establishment at Boston Pub- lic Library, 145 For reproduction of catalogu- ing-slips, 144 Of British Museum catalogues, 139 Prints, how stamped, 182 Privately printed books : Acquired by donation, 55 Exempt from the Copyright Act, 62 Prohibited books, 192-95 Provincial books, difficulty of obtain- ing knowledge of, 63 Prussia : Examinations for library posts, Origin of obligatory copies supplied by publishers, 58 Plan for a subject-catalogue of booksin Prussian libraries, 1 13 Salaries of librarians, 35, 36 Publications, lists of new, 45, 77 Publishers' lists of new books, 75 Publishers' names, whether omitted in cataloguing, 100 Pseudonymous works : How treated in the Bodleian catalogue, 10^ How treated in the British Museum catalogue, 97 Purchase of books, 44-51 Rake books, regulations to secure their safety, 195-96 Readers, regulations concerning, 184 ' ' Reformed Librarie- Keeper, ' ' by John Durie, 3 Registers of purchases, 51 Relative index, 118 Relative-location, 164 Repairs. See Binding Request-book, value of, 46 Research encouraged by circular of inquiry used in Italian libraries, 207 Restrictions on the admission of readers, 179 Reviews as aids in selection of books, 45 Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, used in Italy, 137 Ruelens (M.) opposed to lending out, 216 St. Helens Free Libraries, exhi- bition of books, 199 Salaries at the Bodleian Library, 25 Salaries of librarians, 3, 34-38 Saxony, salaries of librarians, 37 School-books : How treated at the Biblio- th^que Nationale, 69 Largely published in India, Not issued to readers in Vienna Library, 193 Scotland, selection of committees of free libraries, 42 Section-system for the supply of books at the British Museum, 184-88 Selection of books, 3 Serials : Separate room for, at Brussels and Vienna, 152 Treatment of, on shelves of British Museum, 151 Shelf-catalogue. 129 Shelf- catalogue of the British Museum Library, 142, 149 note Sizes of books an element in classi- fication, 166, 168 Small (Hubert), " Handbook of the Boston Public Library," 189
