isua-isnscatalog-1891-1892-072

Description:	INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 71blanks supplied at the Librarians desk, they may be taken fromthe room for a period of from one day to two weeks, with theexception of encyclopaedias, dictionaries and the last issues ofperiodicals, which are not to be taken from the room. Theblank must be filled out by the borrower. A book may berenewed after being returned to the library, provided there is nospecial demand for it. Books referred to for work in departmental study, during the period in which they are used, togetherwith back numbers of periodicals, at all times, can be taken outonly from the closing until the opening hour. Within recitationhours students are not permitted to use the papers and magazines, except for the preparation of assigned work.Each student may have out at one time as many as threebooks, but no two can be departmental reference books of thesame subject.That our room may be kept quiet, no communication is allowedexcept by special permission obtained from the Librarian.The Librarian is ready and willing to give all necessary helpin the finding and selection of books, but the catalogue andclassification will answer all ordinary questions.CATALOGUE.This is arranged on cards in a case of nine drawers placed onthe platform and near to the Librarians desk. If you wish tofind a book of which you know the authors name, look for hissur-name, just as you would look for a word in an English dictionary : e. g., you want a work of Lew Wallace, and so youopen the drawer which, as seen from the outside label, containsW, and there, in proper alphabetic order, will be found thename sought, with entries beneath it on separate cards of his Ben-Hur and Fair God. The book number will be foundon the left-hand side of each card. Again, suppose you want abook on some given subject, say psychology you are to lookfor psychology after the same manner you found Wallace, andwill then find what the library is able to furnish. Once more,if you know the title only, look for the first word of the title.The book number having been obtained, a brief knowledgeof the
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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