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...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...
...left are the offices of Mr. Lane, the librarian, and to the east of those are the "order room" where books received are checked with the order lists, and back of these two sets of rooms is the catalogue room. To the right from the entrance hall a corridor leads to the offices of Professor Coolidge, the director, and a room for the Library Council and Syndics of the University Press. On the south side of the corridor is the "Treasure Room" where are kept books most prized on account of their former ownership or because of their rarity...
...students. To reach the second floor from the front entrance hall, one goes up the central staircase to the level of the Memorial Hall, and then follows either of the two flights which turn backward and upward towards the front of the building. To the left is a short corridor from which rise the stairs to the third story and at the end of which is a special reading room now used for periodicals. The stack level opens from the back of this reading room. The files of newspapers, however, are on the ground floor stack levels, on the west...
...upper corridor of the Fogg Art Museum is placed on temporary exhibition a painting in fresco of the Virgin of the Annunciation, probably the earliest known work of the Florentine painter Ghirlandaio. Examples of fresco are very rare in this country, and this work is very important in showing the quality of the wall painting of the great Florentine masters...
...second floor consists of three divisions, the print room, the photograph room, and the gallery of paintings. The raising of the roof will greatly enhance the facility of carrying on all departments, but the greatest gain is that of light for the main gallery and the stair corridor. A new sloping, slate roof has been built over the north exhibition room and the sky-lights have been considerably raised. The photograph rooms will have the advantage of added space on the side wings, and exhibition cases will be installed in the new quarters as soon as possible...