Catalogue of the Central Lending Library, Hamilton Street, Including Some of the More Important Works Contained in the Reference Library (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Catalogue of the Central Lending Library, Hamilton Street, Including Some of the More Important Works Contained in the Reference Library (Classic Reprint) written by Birkenhead Public Libraries and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Central Lending Library, Hamilton Street, Including Some of the More Important Works Contained in the Reference Library This catalogue contains the titles of nearly volumes representing the stock of the Central Lending Library. The arrangement of the catalogue has been one of necessity rather than of choice, for whilst the Committee at first deemed the alphabetical or dictionary system the most suitable for such a popular library, it was found, upon calculation, that the production would be a volume of unwieldly proportions, and entail a considerable expenditure in the printing alone. A return to the classified catalogue was, therefore, adjudged inevitable, and whilst compressing the work to the limits of such a style of catalogue, to still give most of the advantages that the alphabetical catalogue possesses, with the only dis advantage of increased additional references to be made (in some cases) on the part of those consulting the catalogue. The main object has been to make the work as near as possible a perfect guide to the contents of the Library, not losing sight of the necessity of making such a guide at the same time simple and easily understood by the public. The classification, though not ideal nor yet even a scientific one, is the scheme originally adopted in the Library, and the complicated undertaking of te-arranging the entire library to adopt one of the more modern systems of classification was for the present believed to be inexpedient. By the addition of the extensive index of authors, and the preliminary index of subjects, simplicity of consultation it is thought has been secured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.