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Consolidation, according to its backers would bring order out of chaos, save money, and cut in half the number of steps separating scholars from the public file and charging desk. The proposal was first made in 1949 by Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library...
According to Metcalf, the new system would eliminate yearly duplication of about 85,000 cards and would make the catalogue and charging facilities more accessible. The second floor is on the eighth of ten stack levels and the first floor on the fifth...
Years ago I wrote that the greatest thing about Harvard was its magnificent library. This is even truer today since Mr. Metcalf has made out of it a remarkable library system with numerous innovations and departments efficiently staffed. Unfortunately, however, the tendency has been to allow more and more privileges on the non-reading side while restricting serious readers in various ways. Laxity on the one side will inevitably act as a restrictive measure on the other. It would seem as if American university libraries are doing their utmost to compensate for the rigorous regulations of European libraries, particularly...
...Metcalf said that Lamont's air conditioning system would not supply a large group of people for any length of time...
...possibility of utilizing the libraries as bomb shelters was brought up Monday at a Cambridge council meeting when Councilman Edward A. Sullivan suggested negotiating with University officials for the use of Lamont and Widener. Metcalf said that he had not as yet been contacted...