THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. RULES AND REGULATIONS. The following lines contain a brief summary of the rules governing the use of the Library, the full text of which in pamphlet form may be had free. Every user of the Library is expected to be familiar with them. The Library is free to all at seasonable hours. Citizens, students, temporary sojourners, officers and men of the Army and Navy, and certain other persons may become card holders. Special privileges are granted also to teachers and clergymen, and loans are made upon deposit. Application made in writing, with reference, or student's certificate secures a Library Card entitling the holder to draw books. Card Holders must notify Registration Clerk of change of address. Cards are non-transferable and revocable, and registration may be cancelled. Lost cards entail penalty; responsibility continues. Cards must be presented and stamped regularly with each book drawn or returned. Cards entitle the holder to two books for seven or fourteen days without renewal. Books are not transferable. There are limitations governing the issue of Seven-day books. There are restrictions upon the lending for Home Use of certain books. Any person may use books within the Library upon signing the proper form of application, promising to return them before leaving the room. Fines of two cents a day and twenty-five cents per two weeks extra, for four weeks, and the full cost of replacing books, with loss of privileges until paid, are the penalty for overdetention. No exemption is granted. Further detention is punishable by law. Books must be used with care and all damage made good. Violations of this rule are punishable by fine and imprisonment. Books must be returned when called for and are to be taken from the shelves only by employees. Conversation and other abuses are forbidden under penalty of expulsion. Damage to catalogues is punishable. Attendants must enforce the rules but may be reported for incivility. The Central Library is open daily except holidays, from 9 A.M. till 10 P.M., Sundays, from 2 till 10 P.M., except that the summer closing hour is 9 P.M. both on week days and Sundays. The Branches are open at the hours posted therein. HOUSE RULES. A Coat Room is provided where garments and packages may be checked. Dogs and Smoking are not allowed in the building. Employees are not, except in emergency, allowed to receive visitors during working hours. If articles are lost or found in the Library Building the fact should be reported immediately to the Officer in charge of the Issue Depart ment. PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THE LIBRARY. The Central Library. Annual Lists of New Books. 1896-. Annual Reports. .05; by mail, .15 Free; by mail, 07 Monthly Bulletin. 1896Free; by mail, .03 Quarterly Bulletins. 1867-96. 5 cts. a number; by mail, .10; Nos. 1–3, 10, 12-30, 35-39, 46, 47, 51-56, 62-64, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 101, 102, out of print. English Prose Fiction. 1903. .10; by mail, .17 Books for Boys and Girls. 1904. .02; by mail, .08 Books on History & Art of Printing. .15; by mail, .20 Periodicals, Newspapers, Transactions, and other Serial Publications currently received in the Principal Libraries of Boston and Vicinity. 1897. .25; by mail, .33 Periodicals currently taken at the Central Library. 1903. .10; by mail, .13 Chronological Index to Historical Fiction. 3d ed. In Bulletins from Jan., 1892 to Jan., 1896. (To be issued as a separate work.) Reprinted from the Public Card Catalogue. Bates Hall Index. Supplement of 1866 (including No. 4. Steam Engines. In Bulletin no. 95. 1894. 1.00 Latin Version of 1493 of the First Letter of Columbus Parker Collection). Unbound. on the Discovery of America. tion. 1890. With a new Transla .50; by mail, .52 Books in raised type for the Blind. 1894. French Fiction. 1892. German Fiction. 1905. .05; by mail, .08 Italian Fiction. 1901. .50 Russian Works in the Library. 1896. .05; by mail, .07 1899. Postal Titles. 1900. Economics: selected works in the English language. No. 5. Works relating to the Blind. In Bulletin No. 6. Africa. In Bulletin no. 95. 1894. Electricity and Magnetism. In Bulletin no. 88. 1892. .10; by mail, .13 No. 10. History and Art of Printing. .15; by mail,.20 Memorandums made in a tour to the Eastern States, 1797, by Robert Gilmor. In Bulletin no. 88. 1892. Notes on some writing which may be by Shakespeare in the Library. In Bulletin no. 79. 1869. Spanish and Portuguese Books not restricted to "Hall use." In Bulletin no. 84. 1891. Catalogues of Special Collections. TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY SOLOMON LINCOLN, President. JAMES DENORMANDIE, Vice-President. Station A. 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