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GERMAN LIBRARIES. 137 cases the answers of the Auskunftsbureau, and also the negative answers of the respective library sent by the borrower, are put into the letter. Borrowers not participating in the Prussian Leihverkehr also receive despatch notes and direc- tion labels with the printed address of the Royal Library. A borrower for the first time receives also the printed rules of the loan service. If the borrower has not used the prescribed forms (red order slips for the Prussian Leihverkehr, green ones for other borrowers), such forms are filled up by the officials, and the borrower is asked to sign them. In certain cases, the borrower's ticket (which must be produced the first time of each period) has to be returned. The letter and any other document are put into one of the books, l and a slip is added to inform the officials charged with packing and posting as to the address of the borrower and the number of volumes, and in certain cases to mention the amount for which either an individual book or the whole parcel must be insured, or as to demanding a fee for packing. These officials add the date of posting and the number of parcels, and return the slips to the lending department as a check. Letters are sent c frei durch Ablosung' to libraries, as ' porto- pflichtige Dienstsache ' to private persons. A register of the borrowers out of Berlin and of the intercourse with them is kept. It contains a card for each borrower (library or private person). 1 In the intercourse with a number of large libraries, letters and parcels are sent separately.