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...Lamont will extend its hours during reading and exam periods, reversing a former decision eliminating the late times begun last spring, Lamont Librarian Philip J. McNiff announced yesterday...
Steven Reynolds '55, head of the Student Council committee which investigated and reported on the library situation, interpreted the temporary extension of Lamont hours as proving two points: The University feels it is not yet qualified to make a permanent decision concerning the matter, and must therefore repeat the experiment. Also the University may be considering changes in the House libraries, or the possibility of a freshman library, as an alternative to the proposed Lamont changes...
...problem may be even more severe, for several incidents throw doubt on the very validity of the library figures. The memories of Lamont attendants walking back and forth, eyes fixed straight ahead, twirling the counting mechanism in their fingers, are all too vivid to accept resulting numbers as perfectly accurate. Also, the validity of the House attendance figures is questionable. In Adams House, the librarian received orders to take account of the number of men entering the library during an hourly interval, and not to make a count of people actually there. As a result, Adams reports very low figures...
Recognizing the demand, the administration resorted to declaring that it is still not worth while to keep Lamont, a library, open primarily as a study hall during exam period, when the demand is not so much for books as it is for study space...
...their opponents argue that libraries have always been both reading and study hall; that their main function is to provide space for efficient study combined with ready access to reference material. Lamont, they argue--with its excellent "study nooks"--was obviously constructed for just this purpose...