The home library . s for a long time, as itracks the covers. If the absence of one or more booksfrom a shelf makes it diflBcult to keep the remaining vol-umes upright, insert a wooden block in the place of themissing books. It is well to have a supply of ash or wal-nut blocks resembling in size and shape an octavo volume. 118 THE HOME LIBRAEY. If these are at hand, one of them can be substituted forany book taken down, whether for study or to lend. Alittle slip of silicated paper glued onone side of this block would enable arecord to be kept of the date when thebook was taken away, and of the
The home library . s for a long time, as itracks the covers. If the absence of one or more booksfrom a shelf makes it diflBcult to keep the remaining vol-umes upright, insert a wooden block in the place of themissing books. It is well to have a supply of ash or wal-nut blocks resembling in size and shape an octavo volume. 118 THE HOME LIBRAEY. If these are at hand, one of them can be substituted forany book taken down, whether for study or to lend. Alittle slip of silicated paper glued onone side of this block would enable arecord to be kept of the date when thebook was taken away, and of the pur-pose. When there are only a fewbooks on a shelf, the best block tocause these to stand upright is madeby sawing diagonally in half a cube ofwood six inches every way. The Libra-ry Bureau supply a neat clamped sup-port (Fig. 29) for broken rows of best book-rack for use on the library desk is theEconomy Book Support (Figs. 30 and 31), made from asingle piece of tinned iron. It is firm and strong, and a. Fig. 29.
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