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After more than a year of preparation, Lamont Library will this week release the first printed catalogue of its collection, containing over 39,000 titles...
Widener officials have done nothing to alleviate this situation. Last summer, with stall demands still rising, they even decreased the amount of available space by putting reference material on reading room shelves that were previously assigned to graduate students. Cafeteria-like Lamont, with its small number of books, obviously cannot be used by the thesis writer who needs specialized books and documents...
...study hall was made available to freshmen "on an experimental basis" from January through May last year, after considering agitation by freshmen who claimed that Lamont study time was inadequate. It was open from 9.30 p.m. to midnight on weekdays, from 7 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays and from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to midnight on Sundays...
Philip J. McNiff, Lamont Librarian, who was in charge of the study hall last year, said that the room got a fair amount of use during the reading period and early part of exam period, but was nearly empty the rest of the term...
Asked whether he saw any likelihood of an extension in Lamont hours in the near future, McNiff said that high administration costs make an extension "out of the question...