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There will be no conference in History XIII on Saturday, Jan. 17. During the period of the mid-year examinations, Mr. Currier will be in the stack daily from 2 to 3 o'clock for consultation...
...ground slopes rapidly to the south and to the west, thereby offering advantages which the architect has not failed to make use of. Thus the reading-room, which is entered from the grounds on the east side, is on a level with the fourth floor of the west stack-room, which has seven stacks each seven feet high; the delivery desk being then at the vertical middle of the stack. The stack is practically one of four stories...
According to the plans there are two stack-rooms, placed at right angles to each other; by this arrangement all the books are brought nearer the delivery desk, and future extensions of the stack-rooms are made an easy matter...
...building will be built of stone and will be fireproof throughout; electricity will be used to light it up and steam to heat it. Its extreme dimensions are one-hundred and seventy-three feet by one-hundred and fifty-six feet. The dimensions of the west stack are forty-seven feet by forty-four feet, with a capacity of two-hundred and fifty-four thousand volumes. The south stack is forty-two by forty-three feet and has six floors; the book-capacity is a good deal smaller than that of the west stack-it is one hundred and fifty...
...access to the library, the smallest door, facing on a public street, being intended only for the use of employees. The basement is of Nova Scotia red sandstone., the rest of the building being in brick, with terra cotta mouldings and a free use of copper in the stack and elsewhere. The book stack (only one-third of which is to be built at present), will be, when entire, 96 by 110 feet; the main building is 140 feet by 89, and the tower is 95 feet high. The utmost care has been shown in providing for the three essentials...