Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planning committee for the cooperative storage library has not decided on any figures or definite commitments, but Metcalf predicts the first building will be built to house close to 2,000,000 volumes. It will be designed so it can be easily expanded and connected to additional buildings in the future...
...collections Harvard might contribute, Metcalf says, are these of the languages and literature of the Frisian Islands, and books of Icelandic origin. Two other universities have Icelandic collections, which could be grouped together as the greatest such collection in America...
...Metcalf had a successful precedent when he proposed the project to the other institutions. He was the leader in 1942 in setting up the New England Deposit Library, in Allston, for the use of Harvard, Tufts, Boston College, Boston University, Radcliffe, Simmons, M.I.T., Boston Public Library, Boston Medical Library, Boston Athenaeum, Massachusetts State Library, and Massachusetts Historical Society...
...should have planned for this 40 years ago," Metcalf said at its completion. Keen competition between libraries with each trying to build up its own collection has resulted in duplication that was in many cases "just plain silly," he said...
...South and the Pacific Coast need central deposit libraries at this time. Metcalf says, since 80 percent of the research volumes in the country are in the Northeast and Midwest...