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America's 50 major research libraries have agreed to adopt the "Farmington Plan" to check over-expansion and preserve important research materials, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library and co-author of the plan, announced yesterday. The decision was reached at a recent meeting of the libraries' delegates in Washington, D. C., at which Metcalf represented Harvard...
...many persons, particularly strangers, were falling down on the steps and hurting themselves," explained Library Director Keyes Metcalf, "and it was becoming very embarrassing to have visiting professors or librarians spaining their ankles...
Especially annoying, according to Metcalf, was the pair of steps leading from the ground floor up the first flight of stairs. "We tried everything to make these two steps safe," he said; "we sand-papered them, marked them with black lines, flooded them with spotlights. But people still fell." Now, under the new setup, a ramp covered with the special cement material has been set in over the stairs. If unsatisfactory, it can be lifted out intact...
...every four months, has been designed primarily to provide "faculty and students not only with information as to specific material, but also with an understanding of library problems and purposes which will enable them to prosecute their teaching, studies, and research under the most favorable circumstances," says Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University Library, in the introduction to the first issue...
...will also be of service to bibliographers and students in other parts of the country and abroad, and assist the visiting scholars and researchers "who in normal times come to the Widener building at the rate of 1200 a year," Metcalf concludes...