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ten on the title page, and everything
done to make the catalogue accurate in
all particulars. The model for the cata- ’
logue was that of the Young Men?s Asso-
ciation of Buffalo, which the librarian
had previously made, and both were made
upon the method known as the "Dictionary
Plan." This is the plan of the catalogue
» of the Public Library of Boston, and the ,
plan upon which that of the British Muse-
um is now being made. In many particu-
lars, however, the Louisville catalogue
is much more minute than that of any_
other library for which a catalogue has
been printed. It contains, for instance,
the names of all dramas in the library in é
alphabeticalorder underthe word "Drama."
f All its pamphlets are catalogued as care-
fully as its books. Every person of whose
life a sketch is found in the library has ‘
his name in its alphabetical place, and
the book containing his life is referred
t to. The title of every essay in the li-
brary is alphabetically placed. The name E
‘ of every subject of an engraving in the .
library is in the catalogue. The con-
tents of all periodicals which have no
index were carefully taken, as, for in- sv
stance, Littell’s Living Age, Blackwood’s /
Magazine, etc., so that the catalogue is }
really an index of the periodical litera— J
ture in the library .... f
...The books were numbered consecu-
I- tively and the number placed on the
title-page and upon a small tag pasted f
upon the back of the book. The title-
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