3. Enumerate the chief hindrances met with in the classification of literature.
4. Contrast the relative advantages of Mr. Swan Sonnenschein's "Best Books" and Mr. Fortescue's "Subject Index of the Modern Works added to the Library of the British Museum," with special regard to the internal arrangement of titles.
5. Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of close classification on the shelves.
6. Describe the system of classification you would adopt in dealing with, say, 5000 volumes covering every period of British history.
7. How would you arrange a collection of books by local authors and from local presses, with tracts, pamphlets, and papers, the materials of local history?
8. Find close subject-headings for Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies," Schliemann's "Tiryns," Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," Ascham's " Scholemaster," Hartland's "Fairy Mythology," Muir's "Theory of Determinants."
Library Management
Clause 2. Time 1½ hours.
1. Having an assured income per annum from the penny rate and other sources, what means would you adopt for ascertaining the relative expenditure, i.e. on books, binding, periodicals, &c.?
2. What rule or rules would you enforce in a general reading-room to ensure the fullest possible use of the newspapers and periodicals?
3. How would you arrange magazines and newspapers so that they could easily be found by the readers?
4. Assuming that some card-charging system is in use in your library, what business books would you