THEFTS FROM LIBRARIES
HOW BOOKS ARE TAKEN Mr. 0. Jackson, chief librarian of the Sparkhill branch library, Birmingham, speaking at. the Summer School of Librarianship at Birmingham, recently, said that the rule that borrowers must leave handbags and baskets in charge of an assistant would only be of real value when readers also, had to leave coats and cloaks with largo pockets capable of concealing books. The next step, Mr. Jackson said, would be to provide bathing costumes for borrowers. Then, and then only, might they be reasonably sure that the rule might have some effect in practice. In Birmingham anyone was allowed to enter the library without the formality of producing a ticket. They were thtis following the example of the big stores, who increased their sales by setting out their goods attractively and giving unlimited access to them. Birmingham had long abolished the guarantor system, except in the case of children, yet Birmingham libraries presented a remarkably small list of books lost. At Sparkhill, .with an annual issue of 200,000 books, only one was reported lost through a defaulting borrower* »
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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182THEFTS FROM LIBRARIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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