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THE PANIZZI CLUB. 97 methods that could only lead to fossilizing but some movement in the direction of standardizing would be very useful. Fortunately they had among them representatives of all the three classes of libraries with which they were specially concerned, those attached to Departments of State, to Univer- sities and Colleges, and to professional and technical institutions. All of these had a certain community of interests distinfl from those which bound together the municipal libraries. Because they had these separate interests they could not do what they wished inside the Library Association, but that did not mean that they were to enter into competition with it. All they needed was a small homogeneous club to deal with those things that had a special interest for themselves. When this had got to work, co-operation with the Library Association might follow later. To avoid any appearance of competition with the Association, it was proposed that they should call themselves, not a Society or an Association, but a Club, and that the Club should not try to find a descriptive name, but call itself the Panizzi Club, after the great organizer who raised the library of the British Museum from the second class to the forefront of the first. It was proposed that the subscription should not exceed ics. 6d., and that meetings should be called, not at recurring fixed dates during a session, but when some subject had been found really worth discussion. Their future would depend entirely on the work that individual members were prepared to do. That night they were putting up a notice, ' Good work- men wanted.' v H