Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zooming prediction curves for how many books the library was going to add and how much money it needed. The pamphlet's major recommendation was that a two-million volume addition be built to house parts of the Central Collections--that is, the books in Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries...
...ASSUMED the presidency in the summer of 1971, and, together with Library officials, decided to investigate closely all site possibilities for the new library. It was obvious that it had to be in close proximity to Widener, Houghton, and Lamont, since it would be essentially an extention of those libraries' collections. However, its exact location was a matter to be handled with considerable caution, since it would be the first new building in the Yard since Lamont was built 25 years...
...PUSEY LIBRARY will rise only nine feet above ground level. It will be covered with grass, shrubs and walkways, and a grassy surrounding mound will shield it from view. It will look, if anything, more foliated than the dusty open space between Houghton and Lamont that it will replace...
...library's bottom two levels will be devoted to stack space for books now housed in Widener, Houghton, and Lamont--the University Archives, the Map Collection, the Theater Collection and about 1 million miscellaneous books. "What will be going into the Pusey Library already exists," Robert Walsh says. "There will be no new staff or new books--just more space. We've had to move several things out of Widener in the past for space reasons. Just in the last few years we've taken out the music, art, history of education, landscape architecture and current science collections and housed...
LIBRARY OFFICIALS seem generally pleased with the library's appearance and book capacity. The surrounding mound outside is considered Stubbins's most ingenious innovation, though, because it will allow the upper floor to be as well lit as the inside of Lamont during the day but at the same time will give people inside the library a substantial degree of privacy and spare them from watching disjointed pairs of legs troop by all day. The mound's inner side will be concrete covered with ivy and small plants...