The City Library Association, Springfield, Mass. LITERATURE: ART:
SCIENCE.

The Library: Circulating Department.

The rules of the library require all books to be returned in two
weeks. Book No. G647.2 stands charged to you (Card No. 1906) as taken
from the library Feb. 2. '99.

You are incurring a fine of two cents for every day's detention.

If you think a mistake has been made, please notify us.

A charge of two cents is made for sending this notice.

The City Library. Per B.

Present this notice with your library card.]

The postal notice no. 1, the registration cards 2 and 3, the notice
that the book is overdue, no. 4, the fine slip, no. 5, all explain
themselves.

In most places, certainly in all small towns, a sufficient safeguard
against the loss of books is found in the signature of the borrower
himself. No guarantee need be called for. To ask for a guarantor for a
reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.
The application which the borrower signs should be brief and plain.
Name, residence, place of business, and any necessary references,