Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Library are a large number of small studies averaging about twelve by fifteen feet, for professors, in immediate contact with the stack space; and a large number of small stalls ranged around the outside of the book-stacks, where students or other research workers can have table room, light and privacy within easy reach of books they want...
Outside, the building is about 250 feet long by 200 wide, the front facing north, and the rear entrance being on Massachusetts avenue. The central light court is crossed from front to back by the memorial portion of the building. There are five different systems of floor levels, four of which serve the administrative part of the Library, and that part of it open to the public and to students generally. On the "ground floor" the only rooms for student use are the two large reading rooms for the elementary courses in history and economics, which are at the north...
...reading room is a reference room, off of which is the delivery room and the card catalogue room. Behind the delivery desk a door opens into the stack portion of the building. The book stacks comprise eight stories of steel shelving extending nearly round three sides of the inner light court. Pneumatic tubes lead from the delivery room to various points on each of the stack floors, and cards calling for books are sent out to certain stations among the stacks where boys receive the demand slips from the tubes, find the books and put them on the dumb waiter...
...German Library. Along the west side is Robert Gould Shaw's famous theatrical collection; then come the Mathematics Library, and study and seminary rooms for Economics. In the northwest corner of the top floor is the Child Memorial Library, (English). And along the north side of the light court are the Sanskrit Library, a manuscript room and several seminary rooms...
...Library, naturally in the lime light at this time, receives most instructive discussion at the hands of Professor Coolidge. One finishes a perusal of his article with a better understanding of the peculiar nature of a great scholar's library and some insight into the problems of administration with which the management has to struggle. While Professor Coolidge does not make much of the point, it is nevertheless evident that the Library has suffered from the war, and is in need of gifts to maintain it and enable growth. Mr. Lodge, in "The Meaning of a Great Library," gives...