Library Procedures
Cataloging
- Determine the Library of Congress call number
from another library (e.g., Swarthmore's) using the internet.
Use original cataloging
when appropriate numbers for our library's use are unavailable.
- Enter data
(author, title, subjects, responsibility, publisher, added entries, notes, etc.)
into the data base
or into the script devised to translate to the data base.
- Use the Meeting's address stamp and Library stamp on title page,
inside front and inside back cover.
Paste book pockets in the back.
- Remove any dust jackets.
Place the spine labels
on the spine if possible,
at a uniform distance
(about 1/4 inch) from the bottom.
Put the spine label on the lower left of the front of the book
only if the printed number is wider than the spine.
The white margins of the label can be wrapped
around to the front and back.
Place clear label protectors over spine labels.
Paste the labels on the borrower's card,
and inside pocket.
- Shelve books.
Further details can be found in the (somewhat dated) instructions.
Library Checkout
- No one is to check out a book
without seeing a library representative.
- Members and attenders listed in our directory may borrow books
by filling in name and phone number
on the borrower's card.
Anyone not listed in the directory must see a library representative.
They must include address on borrower's card.
- Date due slip in book and borrower's card are stamped:
For Books, 2 months
For pamphlets, 1 month
- Borrower's cards are filed in wooden box on desk.
Periodical Processing
- All materials should be date stamped
except for newsletters from other Monthly Meetings.
- Monthly Meeting Newsletters are punched with the three hole puch
and put into the green (some blue) binders
kept at the bottom of the periodical shelves.
The latest date is put on top.
When the binder is full,
discard all but the last six months.
- After date stamping,
non-Quaker publications are put in the current periodicals rack
in alphabetical order.
Issues received over six months ago are discarded.
After being stamped with date and the Meeting stamp,
Quaker publications are shelved
in alphavetical order
on the top half of the periodical shelves.