The Library of the New Zealand Patent Office.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 8, 1 June 1907, Page 283

The Library of the New Zealand Patent Office.

We make no apology for referring again to the excellent and valuable library of the Patent Office, to which the public has access always in business hours. The library (of 6,000 volumes), is indebted to the heads of various Government Patent Offices for their publications. These all contain abridgments and indexes of the most useful character. The classification of our own records is of course complete, and is very large. A card index, or key, to the classification amounting to some 23,000 items has been compiled to facilitate reference. Any one who wants to see the inventions on a certain subject has only to refer to the key, and, having thus ascertained the class, turn up the volume of specifications containing it. By means of the index in front of the former he can readily refer to the full descriptions and plans of the inventions. In order that all the inventions patented by any individual may be turned up with an equal facility as those relating to any subject an index of names is being added to each class. The number of volumes in all has, we repeat, now reached the respectable figure of 6,000. In this library ,y inventors can find out all they require to know for their guidance, improvement and protection.

W. Carioll, late of Chnstchurch, no longer represents this journal in the capacity of canvasser.