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Lamont began as a duplicate library, meaning its holdings were also available in less "open" settings. It remains so to this day, according to Cole...
...list] sold for years as 'the way' to start an undergraduate library," Cole says...
Today, Lamont holds 200,000 titles. The vast majority of these are still duplicates of books in other libraries, Cole says, though the occasional unique edition or title will surface due to different buying schedules and unusual requests for course reading lists...
Those reading lists, Cole says, have expanded from a small and standard list of "Great Books" to focus more on primary sources. With this, she says, the library's collections have expanded...
With the "explosion of knowledge" after WWII, Cole says, "It seemed to us that they were reading more, there was more being published, and they were using more to teach...