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...offices and to the left the belfry tower which will dominate the surrounding country. A monumental stairway leads to the second story, on which is the Catalogue and Distributing Room, situated in the very heart of the building, connecting the Reading Room, which occupies the entire front, with the stack, occupying the entire rear, thus giving the most economical and efficient service possible. Twelve Seminars or special study rooms complete the building...
...Library's collection of United States and British documents is placed in the stack next to the Periodical Room, on the second floor, and is open to all students who need to use them. The Bibliographical Reference Room opens out of the Delivery Room on the side opposite from the General Reading Room. It contains bigliographies, indexes to newspapers and periodicals and catalogues of other libraries, especially lists of special classes of books and reference lists...
...student himself gains without doubt a varied and valuable education--but an education that is founded upon books alone. And a high stack of books with no supporting substance will topple and lie inert in heaped confusion. For the application of book facts to life is the true value of an education. Such value is only found in four years of college life among the friends, traditions and ideals of a single institution...
...increase in these figures for 1916-17 was to be expected, since in the previous year the use of the Library was diminished during the process of removal in the summer, while the stalls of the stack were not properly equipped for use until February. A comparison month by month between the two years shows a marked increase during the fall and winter months of 1916-17 as compared with the same months of 1915-16, but from April on, with the more active interest in military affairs there was a distinct dropping off in all figures even
...columns of professors studies extending from the ground floor level to the under side of the third floor are entered only from the stack space. Two columns of them, each three studies wide, are reached by a stair well and elevator which rise from the central corridor on the ground floor...