Word: stack
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Divinity Hall, and at some future date of a chapel which will be to the southeast of Divinity. The woods to the east will complete the square. The new library building is to be of red brick with brown sand stone trimmings, and will contain four lecture rooms, a stack which will hold 40,000 volumes, and a reading room with a large open fire place, thus adding much to the comfort of the readers. The building will cost about $40,000 when completed and will supply a want of which students in the Divinity School have long felt...
...sorry to hear the frequent complaints in regard to talking in the "stack" of the library. In many cases this conversation is utterly irrevelent to library work. It is therefore doubly annoying. Students who are so privileged as to be admitted to the stack should remember that the structure of that part the library building makes any talking easily heard in all parts. We hope that no further reference to the subject will be necessary...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Those students who use the "stack" of the library for special work are greatly annoyed by needless noise and conversation. On yesterday morning two students made themselves generally obnoxious by discussing in a loud voice, their maximum terms for tutoring. There were at this time many students in the "stack" who were trying to make the most of a special privilege. Cannot this protest receive the support of public opinion? Surely students who are supposed to be worthy of special privileges, should show themselves sufficiently public spirited to regard the rights of others...
...system of registry, which makes free use possible, is centred in a desk at the very entrance, in the transept of the great hall. This desk is in easy communication, by means of sliding boxes, with the 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...
...book-stack of the new building to be erected for the great public library of Boston, will be constructed on the same general plan as the new wing of Gore Hall...