ABSTRACT
Proper money provision for a local collection should be made in their estimates. All books and other forms of material which are still in print have known prices and all that is necessary is to collect them. Communication should be established, as already indicated, with every other library in the area, so that the field is defined, and so that each library may know what its neighbour is doing. The librarian must have certain discretionary powers in purchase. It is assumed that every catalogue that comes into a library is examined for local material. It is assumed that a municipal or quasi-municipal institution such as a public library receives every printed publication, map, plan, bill, and everything else put forth by the local authority. The whereabouts of manorial and similar rolls are not always traced easily; it requires some research to discover who were the stewards, solicitors, or other guardians of these (as a rule) now invalid documents.
