Word: deposits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average of 25 books a day are either lent out to member libraries or used in the Deposit' reading room by people with special passes. Only 402 people have visited the building since...
...Deposit Library, a square windowless structure behind the soccer field, was constructed just before the war. It was largely the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, University librarian, who brought the important libraries of the Boston area into the plan and got Harvard to put up $250,000 for the construction of the building...
Though the University pays $11,000 annual rent to the Deposit Library (most of which comes back to pay off the mortgage), it figures its savings in labor and shelf space well worth...
None of the books and newspapers put in deposit are rebound or processed in any other way. Many of the century-old journals are crumbling dangerously...
...fond hope of the Deposit Library was to build up a collection of its own from duplicates of books which were deposited by more than one member institution. The collection as present consists of "The Book of Business Etiquette," "The American Government Today," and a couple of dictionaries. Rapid growth is not expected in the near future...