Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approving four out of five suggestions from the Student Council for revisions of Lamont Library procedure, the Committee not only altered the reserve system but also extended Sunday night hours, instituted spot checks of bursar's cards, and told librarians to collect reserved books found unattended...
...lengthen Sunday hours in Lamont from 10 p.m. to 12 midnight during reading and exam periods. The committee also urged continued contact between the Council and library officials...
...nine in the morning, a practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...
...remedy this low turn-over of books and to help reduce crowding, a new reserve system should be instituted. Books could be checked out three times per day--perhaps at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., and 9 p.m.--so that students would not be confined to Lamont itself as a study area. To facilitate the operation of this system, reserve books would be due back at Desk 3 and Desk 1 thirty minutes before the start of the next check-out period...
Other libraries, such as the Radcliffe Library, already use a system of this type with great success. After a decade of generally successful operation, Lamont and its policies should be examined--and one of the most fruitful changes could come in the reserve system...