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...Lamont began as a duplicate library, meaning its holdings were also available in less "open" settings. It remains so to this day, according to Cole...
...original catalog of 30,000 books was chosen by Edwin E. Williams, the first assistant librarian of Lamont, to provide undergraduates easy access to the books they were likely to need most often...
...Alumni Bulletin stated that Lamont contained duplicates of books in high demand at other University libraries. The example given was Hadley Cantril's The Invasion From Mars...
Many of the books were moved to Lamont from the Boylston Hall and Union reading rooms, which subsequently closed their doors...
...Today, Lamont holds 200,000 titles. The vast majority of these are still duplicates of books in other libraries, Cole says, though the occasional unique edition or title will surface due to different buying schedules and unusual requests for course reading lists...