Excerpt from Card System at the Office, Vol. 1 The object of this book is to furnish office principals with adequate 1 means by way of explanation and illustration to enable them to work out systems suitable to their individual requirements at the office or if they have already some system in use, to help them to co-ordinate and extend it so that the whole of this office work may have one homogeneous arrangement for its basis. Office Organisation, of which the work here discussed forms part, 2 has been considerably modified within recent years and what is called the card system has now come very much into vogue. This bears sufficient testimony to its capabilities and usefulness in its practical application. The most important branches of office work are discussed in the following pages so far as the compass of this volume allows, and it is hoped that it may contribute its share to stimulate still further the general adoption of a system which is itself the outcome of modern business methods and has stood the test of time. Under Application to Office Work the section Correspondence has been treated more fully and under Application to Business the section Circularising has been treated similarly, these two subjects being the only ones which are more or less extensively applied at all offices. As far as indexing proper is concerned, this volume gives sufficient 3 information (in a condensed form) on which to construct indexes generally required at the office. Volume 2 will be almost entirely devoted to the work of indexing in the sense of analysing literature and will go more fully into the question of classification and the management of guide cards. The present volume is confined as far as practicable to the use of plain cards. Tabulated cards, methods of tabulating and the application of tabulated cards to practical business will be dealt with in volume 3, The Card System at the Factory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.