GERMAN LIBRARIES. 135 lending) takes about fifteen hours weekly of the time of one assistant, and an attendant will perhaps spend about twenty-four hours weekly for packing, unpacking, and posting. In the Royal Library at Berlin, the frequenter who wants a book from another library must pro- duce the answer of the Auskunftsbureau, stating which library contains a copy of the wanted book, and declare that he is willing to pay the expenses. He fills in an order slip, which remains in the Royal Library as a receipt, and the Royal Library itself fills in a second order slip, which is sent to the lending library. Two day-books record the several steps of each loan. The day-book for the Prussian Leihverkehr records in eleven columns : (i) The current number of the books demanded by the Royal Library of other libraries during the year ; (2) the name of the lending library ; (3) the current number of the books demanded by the Royal Library of this library during the respective year ; (4) the title of the required book ; (5) the date of the order ; (6) the date of the arrival ; (7) the number of volumes ; (8) the fees paid ; (9) the date of the return ; (10) the name and the address of the frequenter; and (n) remarks, if the books were and must be insured, etc. The remaining part of the page is used for statistics. The day- book for the other loans has not the column 3 of the first day-book, as the current numbers are pre- scribed only for the Prussian Leihverkehr ; it has instead a column for the time allowed for keeping the book, as out of the Prussian Leihverkehr the time allowed varies.
