摘要：ECHANICAL means for expediting library work have been considered for many years, as an examination of the early pages of Library Journal bears out. The very first volume of the forerunner of the BULLETIN, the Medical Library and Historical Journal, moreover, contained an article on the use of the "typewriting machine" in cataloging (1). Telephones have long been accepted as library machines, and, except for unusual items, hand bookbinding has given way to machine-bound books.
