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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Outside, the building is about 250 feet long by 200 wide, the front facing north, and the rear entrance being on Massachusetts avenue. The central light court is crossed from front to back by the memorial portion of the building. There are five different systems of floor levels, four of which serve the administrative part of the Library, and that part of it open to the public and to students generally. On the "ground floor" the only rooms for student use are the two large reading rooms for the elementary courses in history and economics, which are at the north...
There is another entrance to the ground floor next to Massachusetts avenue, at the middle of the south side of the library, which leads nearly to the front of the Library, past various rooms for members of the staff, to the history-economics reading room on the west; to some of the administrative rooms on the east, opposite President Lowell's house, and, by a flight of stairways leading upward, to the first floor, which may also be reached by coming up the main steps from the front or Yard side...
From the rear of the large square entrance hall rises the main stairway opposite the doors on the first floor. The first flight leads to the Widener Memorial Hall, back of which, on the same level, is the room containing Widener's collection of books and his portrait above the mantel. On the first floor at the top of the outer steps and to the 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...
...great reading room stretching along the entire front of the building, is the main centre for the majority of the 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...
...whole floor is reserved solely for Seniors with the exception of a few seats for officers of the University. Undergraduates and the public will be admitted to the gallery...