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...leading periodicals a few weeks ago there was a long article in which the library of Columbia college was described and among the many improvements to the present college library system mentioned, was a portable electric light which the reader might place in any position on the table at which he sat. On reading of this convenience we were painfully reminded of the lack of advancement of our own library in Gore Hall. There can be but little doubt that the larger the college grows the greater effort ought to be made to enable the students to pursue a course...
...shall be pleased to have your company" -(the reader's heart begins to beat-What next? He reads on) at our clothing" -and the waste paper basket comes in use. Such deception is fearful. Do you wonder that the victim swears never to enter that "clothing establishment...
...floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with tables, to which the reader may freely take as many books as he requires, and as the dusk comes on, a tap of the bell from the librarian's room to the engineer puts at his disposal a movable electric light, which he may turn on or off at will. All the tables have individual lights...
...number of books is about 60,000 and each year a large number are being added. The building also shelters the famous Torrey herbarium with its 60,000 specimens. The object of the librarian to give to the books the greatest accessibilities with the least possible inconvenience to the reader. The libraries of the several schools are now brought together under one administration, and the law librarian, the science librarian, and other specialists are staff officers of the university librarian. They, in turn, have the help of a staff of bright Wellesley girls, of the class...
...stack-rooms, in which the body of the collection not needed for reference is packed with such economy of space that a low room, 61 by 22 feet, houses 40,000 volumes. Each book has pasted inside its cover a pocket, into which slips a book-card ; each reader is represented also by a card arranged according to his initials in a case at the registry desk. The book's number is entered on the reader's card ; the reader signs his initials on the book's card, which, while the book is out, is kept in a second case...