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Exercises at the Opening of the Library Building Containing a Description of the Building ... October 7, 1891 - Couverture souple
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Library Building. Be$cripttoit. The Library stands at the southwest corner of the as yet incomplete quadrangle formed by the main University buildings. The ground here, sloping rapidly to the south and west, oifered some advantages which have been turned to good account by the architect. Thus the reading room, which is entered from the ground-level on the east side of the building, is on the level of the fourth floor of the west stack room ;and as the stack is divided into seven stories, each seven feet high, the delivery desk is placed at the vertical middle of the stack, which thus becomes practically one of four stories instead of seven. The division of the stack, which has a present capacity of four hundred thousand volumes, into two wings, placed at right angles to each other, while providing greater opportunities for future extension, also brings the books nearer to the point of delivery ;so that in either stack the most distant book is only one hundred and twenty feet from the centre of the delivery desk, and there are no shelves beyond easy reach from the floor. The accompanying plans will show that not only has the first great requirement of ample room for the future storage of books with direct and easy access from the delivery desk been completely met, but the no less important conditions of successful working, such as economy of administration, abundance of light, good ventilation, and generous provision for the needs of advanced students as well as for those of the general reader, have been thoroughly recognized and richly fulfilled. The extreme dimensions of the building are one hundred and seventy feet by one hundred and fift3 -tliree feet. Tlie general outlines are somewhat in the form of a cross, the book stacks, I, I, occupying the southern and western arms, the reading rooms, A, B, the eastern, while the northern provides accommodation for
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