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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2158, 26 May 1914, Page 5

The French National Library has had so many complaints recently about the tremendous time it takes to find a book that the architect and tho director, M. Hccourd and M. TTomolle, arc studying a plan of distribution by rolling carpets. The idea will be to place telephones in the different rooms used by readers, 'i'liey will ask for the books Ihev want over a wire to the rontral office, the librarian and his assistants will then order them from their places on the shelves, and in two or three minutes they will arrive on a rolling carpet near the scat of the render who has asked for Ihem. This system is said to work with great success in Berlin and in some towns in tho t'nited States. 'file German Emnoror takes great prulo in a cannon of sold sold which bo possesses, inlaid with precious stones. Tti value, purely as n piece of jewellery, is set at ,S:,m. and it is specially guarded. Tim trustees of thr- IL'mbunt M'"dim had previously cherished It for two centuries.