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December, 1899.

CHIVERS'

Book Issue Indicator

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CHARGING SYSTEM.

For New Libraries adopting an Indicator this is undoubtedly the best. It is not claimed on its behalf that it is of the widest adoption, for it is comparatively quite new. The advantages over the devices hitherto most frequently used are:

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That it is much smaller.

The figures are much clearer.

Declares overdues automatically.

Lends itself more readily to statistical purposes.

5. Is quicker in operation.

6. Is cheaper and costs less to maintain. 7. Keeps clean and bright.

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It does everything other Indicators do and supplements them where they have proved weak.

9. Apart from its own charging system it is a device which shows in smallest space books in and out. This Indicator is alone in adapting itself to any system of book-keeping or charging which the Librarian has in use and desires to retain.

Full Particulars, Diagrams and Illustrations, will be sent on Application.

CEDRIC CHIVERS, PORTWAY, BATH.

That this Indicator is steadily gaining ground is shown by the fact that it has been adopted by the following Public Libraries :

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The following are extracts from the report of the Southport Library Committee:

"In order that the Sub-Committee should be fully acquainted with the various modern systems, the following Libraries have been visited by the deputation appointed for that purpose :-Bootle, Birkenhead, Clerkenwell, Chelsea, St. George's (Hanover Square), St. Martin-inthe-Field, St. Helens and Wigan. These particular institutions were selected either as types of the different systems now in vogue, or on account of the modern features contained in them.”

"With regard to the various Indicators now in use, the Sub-Committee, after careful inspection of their practical working, are of opinion that CHIVERS' SYSTEM is the best, the most compact, simplest, and quickest to work; it possesses the further advantage of saving all book-keeping and entries by the staff. The Sub-Committee recommend this Indicator for use in the departments referred to."

Cedric Chivers, Portway, Bath.

Full particulars and diagrams of the Indicator will be sent on

application.

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This Indicator was the first of its kind erected.

10,000 books are here represented, in blocks of 250 each, and the small space occupied is well shown.

CHIVERS' BOOK

CHIVERS BOOK ISSUE INDICATOR, AT ST. HELENS.
This Indicator was supplied in columns of 1,000 numbers, and fitted into a fascia designed by
the architect of the building and erected under his control.

The Chivers' Indicator, in blocks of 250 (9 x 9) numbers each, may be purchased without a frame, and thus it lends itself as does no other to architectural treatment.

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This Frame is made to hold 12,000, but 8,000 blocks only were supplied, leaving room for expansion, which is here utilised as seen. It is a feature of this Indicator that the expense of dealing with additions may be postponed until the growth of the Library demands it, and that it expands in so small a group of numbers

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as 250, reflected in a block only 99 by 99.

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