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...Universities may grow each year arithmetically," Metcalf says, "but libraries grow geometrically." A research library doubles its size every 20 years, according to Metcalf...
...Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, initiated the project in 1948, and the other five librarians delegated him last month to draw up the first set of concrete proposals for presentation at their fourth mesting, scheduled for some time in April...
Princeton is in the best shape, with its recently constructed $6,500,000 building. Harvard, Metcalf says, has room for another nine or ten years' accumulation, but a new central library at that time might cost...
...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...
...Radcliffe won't be admitted to Lamont classrooms because, Metcalf said, "you just can't put girls in one part of the building and not in the rest...