Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will bring the second story of the stack on the level of the delivery room floor. Space will be taken out of this second and third floor of the stack for a staircase to the reading room. This new apartment vestry in the upper stack, will have a new roof for its ceiling, which will have a skylight running its whole length. This roof will be as far above the floor of the new reading room, as the suspended plaster ceiling was above the old one. The windows will be stripped of their old tracery and diamond lights, and fitted...
...other improvements in the building are almost entirely in the matter of ventilation. Two large ventilators have been placed in the lecture room on the second floor, and these ventilators are connected with immense electric fans placed under the roof. New ventilators have been put in all the laboratories, like wise connected with electric fans in the roof. When these fans are in motion the air in the rooms is constantly changing, so that the most thorough ventilation is secured...
...June 17 the roof of the Union Boat Club will be open to holders of tickets wishing to see the regatta of the Metropolitan Amateur Rowing Association...
...into two stories, the lower of which will be converted into a stack, entirely fire-proof, which will accommodate 150,000 volumes. The upper story will be fitted up as a new reading room with more airy alcoves, better tables, and easy chairs. Between the present ceiling and the roof there is a vacant space of fifteen feet. This ceiling will be torn down, so that the new room will be at least as high as the old. The lighting, too, will be greatly improved, as the old ground glass will be taken out and larger panes of plate glass...
...volumes a year. Obviously with the present great accumulation of unstacked books, the new space will soon be consumed. When this comes about, the proposed plan is to turn the whole of what is now the reading room, as well as the empty space between the ceiling and the roof, into a stack. By this change 500,000 additional volumes in all could be put away. The library at present contains about 400,000 volumes, so it would have to more than double before it could fill up the extra space...