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...extension will soon be added to the rear of the Law School, 75 feet long by 75 feet wide, containing five stories and a basement. It will be used essentially as a book stack, and will have accommodation for over 250,000 volumes...
...seating capacity for 100 and 220 students respectively. The floor below, which is on a level with the present reading room, will have besides book frames, a library room, cataloguing room and three professors' rooms. The first, second and third stories have been given up chiefly to the book stack, although there will be a large working room and five small rooms for professors on the third floor, and five professors' rooms on the second. A bindery will probably be put in the basement, together with part of the book stack and a room for packing...
Several changes will be made to the main building, the present stack as well as the offices of the secretary and librarian being added to the reading room on the second floor...
...objection to a change in the Sunday hours at the Library has been over-looked; it is in the Library itself, the stack of 350,000 volumes. As this is closed at 5.30 every evening, the authorities should not be expected to take the risk and trouble of opening it on Sunday night; and, if the hours are changed, the stack will not be open, except during the existing hours...
...present arrangement take out books over night for evening study, after five o'clock, thus securing them from 1.30 p.m. Sunday to 9 a.m. Monday. Under the proposed arrangement, the reference shelves would be accessible altogether for only three and a half hours, and the University collection in the stack would not be accessible at all. Those who petition for a change can hardly have taken these facts into account...