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...peephole in it. I knock, and the peephole peeps. After a moment, the door opens, and a beautiful oriental girl in a short-sleeved clinging white kimono asks me what I'm selling. Now, one of these occupational scholars would handle the situation all wrong; that's where my Lamont experience comes in handy. I just give her a little grin that could mean anything, and show her the slip. She gives me all the answer I want...
...five years the rows of inverted ice trays that light Lamont Library have hummed nearly 13 hours a day, six days a week, above the heads of studying undergraduates. This month the cork, steel and glass structure celebrates its birthday. With certain reservations, it has fulfilled the expectations of its planners as America's model college reading library...
Like all successful brain children, Lamont is celebrating its anniversary by functioning. Already this year it has served more undergraduates than in any previous fall term, and business has reached an all-time peak this reading period. A committee of 125 faculty members has finished weeding out and revising the list of titles in the collection, and the now titles have been published in the library's first printed catalogue. Boyond this, the library is expanding its services in new fields in an effort to attract more adherents. The young library is a robust and active five year...
...Lamont stands today as a concrete and practical solution to one of the University's longest-standing bugaboos--the problem of making its vast collection of books more readily accesible to students. With the influx of veterans following World War II, this problem became appallingly clear: although the University has a larger number of books than any other organization in the country except the Library of Congress, it was harder for the student to get his hands on an assigned text than at many smaller and less well-equipped colleges...
...Lamont was designed to meet these needs. It was designed to work efficiently, and not only to provide the student quickly with those books he knew he wanted, but to bring him into contact with others by placing them in open stacks right before him. And it was designed to provide him with an ideal environment for study, writing, and casual browsing. In all respects but the last it has succeeded admirably...