Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Each applicant for examination is required to procure and deliver to the librarian, on or before Thursday, June 1, as many examination books as there are subjects in which he is to be examined, with his name and one of the subjects written on the outside of each. The books will be required to be written in ink. No one will be permitted to take into the examination any book or paper of any description...
...finish on this floor will be entirely of hard pine with exposed beams, as on the first floor. The basement of the building is given up to the lavatories for professors' and students' use, the boiler rooms and two large unpacking rooms from which an elevator runs to the librarian's room. All goods can be loaded and unloaded at the rear door of the basement, as the ground slopes considerably from the front to the rear of the building...
...reference books. At the north end of the room is a large brick fire-place with carved mantel. The windows are small, but arranged in such a manner that the light admitted is just where it is most needed. A railing separates the reading room from the librarian's room, which will be fitted with all the modern appliances now in ure among librarians to secure the quick delivery of volumes. This room, together with a librarian's private room, is directly over the professors' small rooms in the Mezzanine story...
...Librarian Winsor has completed a "List of the Most Useful Reference Books," which appears in the current number of the University Bulletin. "A List of Maps (1855 to 1881)," by R. Bliss, Jr., of the U. S. Geological Survey, and "A List of American Authors in Geology and Paleontology," by Professor J. D. Whitney, also appear in the same number...
...librarian himself at Cambridge University is required to give a bond of pound100 before he is allowed to draw a particularly valuable manuscript from the library...