Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keyes DoW. Metcalf, director of the University Libraries, told the Student Council last night that January 3 is the opening date of the new undergraduate library...
Lamont will be a library "to please the students," Metcalf said. "We haven't kept in close enough touch with either students or the Council in the past," he admitted. "We fully realize that Widener is a library primarily for researchers or faculty members...
Unique design features will make Lamont quite different from Widener, Metcalf revealed. For example, the main reading room has alcoves all around the walls, each equipped with a desk and chair. All in all, there are 250 such alcoves in the building...
Uncertainty as to delivery of needed materials makes it impossible to set a definite time for the library's opening, Metcalf said...
When the building itself is completed, it will take only a week end to fill Lamont's stacks. Metcalf explains the job is completely different from that done recently at Princeton, which had to move 1,000,000 books when it opened its new library...