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...books as the size of the library increases. Thus the need for more and more economical ways of making books available will increase rather than diminish. It is here that Metcalf has done his most significant work. By placing the catalogues of the world's great libraries in Widner, and refining the interlibrary loan, Metcalf has made almost any book in the world available to the patron of the University library...
Since 1943, Widener Library has housed the world's largest collection of biographical material in one place on one man. Its Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Library, now on Display" in Widner, contains more than 12,000 books, besides microfilm records of 125,000 letters written by Roosevelt, and over 5,000 photographs and cartoons. The collection, begun 34 years ago by the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, now covers much of Widener's fourth floor, spilling over onto the sixth floor...
...remaining eight cards, two, the Directory Card and the Harvard Alumni Record Card, go to the Alumni Records office on the top floor of Widner. The Directory cards are used solely for making up the University Directory which is published in mid-November, but for some reason they are kept in a file even after the directory appears. The Alumni Record Card is the one card of the twelve which is discarded during the year, but only after the information on it has been transferred to an Alumni Card, kept in the office even after the alumnus dies...
...halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...
...present Widner Library is designed mainly for graduate students and men doing research work and the system does not allow ordinary under graduates to browse freely in the stacks...