Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much concerned with the fact that our present facilities don't take care of undergraduate needs," Ottemiller said yesterday. The Associate Librarian has directed the report's preparation which has included the study of phases of Lamont's operation which Yale hopes to duplicate. A former Brown University Librarian, Ottemiller worked on Harvard's Lamont project as it was being planned...
...report will recommend a collection of books and a catalogue independent of the University library similar to Lamont's, Ottemiller said. Yale would also like to have individual reading booths resembling Lamont's, he indicated. "We want plenty of well-lighted reading space so undergraduates can study in peace away from the colleges," he said...
...Although our ideal goal is one copy of required books for each student who must do the reading, unless we get extra money we'll use a reserve books system similar to Lamont's," Ottemiller stated. He said that while he was at Brown that school's library had successfully used the "one book per man" plan until the Second World War put an end to the project...
Ottemiller said the suggested library would be about the same size as Lamont, which has about 100,000 books and 39,000 titles...
...most ambitious steps toward these goals, still in the planning stage, are a new resident college and an undergraduate library somewhat like Harvard's Lamont Library. The most probable location for the new college has already been purchased while a plan for a new library will soon be submitted to the administration by University librarians...