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...confirming the report, Dean Leighton denied that this number represented any special outburst of illegal book removal from Lamont Library. But he did indicate there were at present 38 other books now under investigation which were signed out under false names and not yet returned...
McNiff, speaking on the Student Council program over WHRB, added that upperclassmen's complaints are only "partially justified." But it is still unlikely that the Student Council plan to keep Lamont Library open an additional 20 hours each week will be adopted, he said...
There is a greater chance of Lamont opening on Sunday afternoons than of extended hours on weeknights. "While statistics of late hour usage during exam periods show a sharp drop between 10 p.m. and midnight, and only half as many people in the library at 10:30 as at 8:30," McNiff said, "the Sunday attendance was usually high...
...extra two hours a night would also create serious staff problems, since state law prevent girls from working in the library after 10 p.m. "It would be difficult to get male help for Lamont," McNiff continued, "Especially of the calibre of the staff we have...
...enter the building crowded between Lamont and Widener Libraries, one must first get past the watchful, wary doorman. Some special displays are behind locked show cases, but most books are in the reading room, which the person at the circulation desk can open only by a special switch. If the building seems more like a bank vault than a library, it is because it was planned to preserve perfectly every inch of every book in the collection. Constantly clicking machines check the temperature and humidity, and ultra-violet devices, microscopes, and micro-film viewers aid scholars in doing research...