Parliamentary Record Series Entry

Classification

Creating Agency	Library
Series	PRS 0261.L, Stocktaking, Records relating to
Date Range	01/04/1887 - 01/04/1980
Description	This series is an artificial one, created for convenience, and comprising all the extant miscellaneous records relating to stocktaking created up to 1980. These are generally lists of books missing at particular times or from particular locations; lists of magazines needed to complete sets; lists and inventories of books in particular places or repositories; and lists of books from the collection donated to other institutions.

Item List

1 "List of Books", 1887 - c.1891

2 Manuscript List of Books Lost or Wanting, 1888 - 1926

3 Stocktaking records, 1924

4 Stocktake Lists, 1916 - 1922

5 Stocktake Lists, 1928 - 1931

6 Outstanding Entries in the Day Book, 1936 - 1941

7 Superseded Finding Lists, Inventories, 1957 - 1972

8 Finding Lists and Miscellaneous Inventories, 1968 - 1978

Item No.	Description
1	List of Books, 1887 - c.1891
	A list of magazines, serials and multi-volume works, enumerating the number of volumes (4,467), n.d. Enclosed is a list of additions, 1887; a list of Record Commission Publications, n.d.; and a list of official works relating to agriculture, n.d.
2	Manuscript Lists of Books Lost or Wanting, c. 1888 - 1926
	This volume is a bound collection of various papers relating to stocktaking. The lists are: List of Books Missing, n.d. (c. 1888); List of Books Missing from the Back Library, 18 May 1904; List of Books Not Shelved Missing from the Library, 27 May 1904; List of Books Missing from the Series in the Library, n.d.; List of Books Missing from the Series in the Library, 20 June 1904; List of Books Missing from the Council Library, 18 May 1904; List of Books Received from the Colonial Secretary's Office, n.d. (c. 1903); Dates Wanting, n.d.; List of Magazines required to complete the volumes in the Library, n.d. (c. 1900); Outstanding Entries from the Day Book, n.d.; List of Books on Loan or Missing from the Library, 31 May 1910; List of Books Missing from the Shelves, 1918; List of Books Missing from the Shelves, 1921; List of Magazines required to complete the volumes in the Library, n.d. (c. 1926)
3	Stocktaking records, 1924
	This volume is a bound collection of two alphabetical lists relating to outstanding loans by Members. Each list is comprised of the following information: Name of Member; Titles of books ; and date (possibly of return).
4	Stocktake Lists, 1916 - 1922
	This volume is a bound collection of a number of lists relating to the stocktaking of magazines and newspapers, giving the titles, numbers of copies, and the monthly issues in the Library. They are: American magazines; American illustrateds; Australian magazines and newspapers; English newspapers; English and European magazines; and English illustrateds.
5	Stocktake Lists, 1928 - 1931
	This volume is similar to No. 4, above, being a bound collection of a number of lists relating to the stocktaking of magazines and newspapers, giving the titles, numbers of copies, and the monthly issues in the Library. They are: Australian; American; English and European magazines; English newspapers; illustrateds; and Australian newspapers and magazines.
6	Outstanding Entries in the Day Book, 1936 - 1941
	The "Day Book was apparently the daily loans register (PRS 280.L, above page 45), and this is a manuscript list of items outstanding on it. It gives the date, title of work, and the name of the Member who borrowed it. Another typed list is attached. This second list gives the location number of the missing book, the author, and the title. It is annotated with the name of the Member who borrowed it.
7	Superseded Finding Lists, Inventories, 1957 - 1972
	This volume is a bound collection of various lists and papers relating to stocktaking. They are: List of Books removed from the Main Library and stored in Basement, also list of law books, n.d.; List of Books in Safe, Front Library, 12 October 1960; List of Contents of Assembly Basement Safe, 9 September 1960; Books, Periodicals etc placed in Basement and Farrer Flat, 1957; Books transferred to Fisher Library, June 1963; Additions to Basement Flat, n.d.; Books withdrawn from Circulation, 15 April 1962; Liverpool Street Storage Library - Inventory, January 1968; (Great) Buckingham Street Storage Library - Inventory, August 1972; Finding List of Bound Newspapers Volumes in the Library, 27 July 1961.
8	Finding Lists and Miscellaneous Inventories, 1968 - 1978
	This volume is a bound collection of various lists and papers relating to stocktaking. They are: Location List of Bound Newspapers, January 1971; Material on Loan (to other Libraries), 15 May 1975; Newspaper Finding List, October 1978; Newspaper Microfilms held by the Library, November 1977; Newspaper Finding List (Sydney), October 1978; Contents of Assembly Basement, Library Corridor, Council Library, Caucus Room, Caucus Corridor, Public Works Corridor, and Mint Building, 26 February 1975; Inventory of Liverpool Street Storage Library, January 1968; Inventory of (Great) Buckingham Street Storage Library, August 1972; Newspaper Finding List (Sydney), October 1978; Relocation of Library Holdings Finding List, 28 April 1975; Contents of Assembly Basement, Library Corridor, Council Library, Caucus Room, Caucus Corridor, Public Works Corridor, and Mint Building, 26 February 1975; an unidentified shelf list (beginning at page 3); Inventory of (Great) Buckingham Street Storage Library, March 1972; miscellaneous manuscript lists, n.d.

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