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Compendium on Acts and Rules

Groups. Pages in the Almirah.
catalogue. Shelf.
Vaccination.

Trade—Rail-borne Traffic.
Trade—River-borne' Traffic.
(11) Occasional Reports—

Famine Reports. Plague Reports. Fisheries Reports. Supply of Labour.
(12) Scientific, not included under preceding' beads—

Archaeological.
Meteorological.
(13) Law Reports and Digest—
Indian Law Reports—

Calcutta Series.
Bombay "

Madras "
Allahabad "
(14) Miscellaneous.

254. The names of the annual reports should be shown-in the index. The years for which

the reports exist should be shown in the catalogue proper.

Arrangement 255. Ample space should be left to add other annual reports as they are received in the
of books on the
shelves. library. They should be kept on the shelves vertically. As each annual or periodical report
comes, in, it should be put in its proper place on the shelf.

Arrangement 256. Where possible, books that properly fall in the same group should be kept side by
of books in side in the same almirah. For example, the bulky volumes of the Linguistic Survey and
almirah.
small pamphlets like Grierson's Seven Grammars of the Behari Languages really belong

to the same group and should be kept together. Where, however, space does not admit
of this arrangement and books belonging to the same group have to be placed in

different parts of the library; the almirah and shelf number or letter should be properly
shown against them in the catalogue.

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