Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...removal of the lower alcoves in the delivery room, increased space for the card-catalogue and the public; but the great change will consist of the complete reconstruction of the interior of the original Gore Hall building. This structure has been stripped to the bare walls. A three story stack will be placed in the lower portion of the empty shell, which 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...
...architects have decided that the supports of the floor of the present reading room are not strong enough to bear the weight of the new stack and reading room. The old brick pillars in the basement will be taken out, and the new stack will rest on the foundation. This change will not make room for any more books, as all the available space in the basement is already occupied. At present there are 100,000 volumes in the basement and reading room, including about 10,000 reserved books. The latter will be placed in Lower Massachusetts shortly after Class...
...building a floor fourteen feet above the present one, the reading room will be divided 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...
...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...
...needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time that the whole body of the alumni and friends of the University should undertake to provide by a general subscription these indispensable means of instruction and research? It is the most comprehensive object for which money can be given to a university; for the Library is needed...