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...will be an improvement over Gore. The added width of the building has made it possible to secure a greater degree of compactness in the arrangement of books, and the necessity of distributing certain classes of books over two or three tiers has been eliminated. The light in the stacks is also much better than in Gore and reading at the stack tables may be done with much greater comfort...
Randall has proved extremely well adapted to the purpose for which it was chosen. A stack four stories in height about as large as the present East stack of Gore, has been erected which accommodates approximately 400,000 volumes. The delivery room will be arranged as usual, and will be as complete and efficient as that in Gore. Over the delivery room, a reference room has been constructed, and also a reading room. This latter, which seats about 24 people, is not for general use, but will be open only to those having permission to enter the stacks. Other arrangements...
Beginning today, Gore Hall will close daily at 5.30 P. M., instead of remaining open as heretofore in the evening so that officers, and others may have access to the book-stack. The building is still open from 9 A. M. to 5.30 P. M., and books to be borrowed should be asked for here...
...book-stack to hold about four hundred thousand volumes is in course of erection in Randall Hall, where the headquarters of the Library will eventually be transferred (including catalogues, delivery desk, and administrative staff) as soon as all the books are moved...
...proposed building is to contain, besides the stacks and accompanying rooms, one large and three smaller reading rooms, separate rooms for special collections, map room, and rooms for exhibitions, and for administration, with the reading room screened from the street noises by the stack, and with entrances both from the Yard and at the southern...