Handbook of the John Hay Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandThe University, 1911 - 19 pages |
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99 feet adjoining it containing alumni April 30 assorting room bear the following bindery book-lift BROWN UNIVERSITY building bule cial Class Collection of Ameri Collection of International Collection of Rhode COLLECTION ROOM college library proper College Street east room Eight floors famous Harris Collection feet 6 inches feet on College floor is devoted following inscription four rooms fourth floor HENRY WHEATON interior exhibition room International Law Island depository set JOHN HAY LIBRARY Lamont Collection large interior exhibition large room Library of Congress lighted by thirteen loan desk look-out alcove main floor map room mezzanine floor Nicholas Brown numbers overlooking the court placed reference books Prospect Street rare books reference desk reference librarian Rhode Island depository Rhode Island History Rider Collection room contains rooms for art second floor space for bookcases special collections study rooms overlooking three study rooms top floor two-story stack undergraduate wall-shelves are placed walls bear Wheaton Collection
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Page 8 - ... Library (for Americana), which will continue to occupy the beautiful building erected for it a few years ago, a furlong away. " Nearly all the department libraries not connected with the laboratories will be accommodated in the old building; and the latter will communicate with the new by means of an electric book-carrier, thus making available to readers in either building the resources of the other, . . . " 10 This is approaching very closely to the ideal. May the architects take notice, and...
Page 3 - The present arrangement in this room provides for 50 readers, two at a table, arranged so that every reader has the light over his left shoulder and sits next to an aisle, no reader facing another.
Page 8 - Reading room, 99 feet by 47 feet 8 inches, 28 feet 5 inches high, seating 1 80 readers ; cataloguers' room, 34 feet 9 inches by 20 feet 8 inches, 13 feet 6 inches high; two rooms for the Librarian and two coat rooms. Mezzanine floor: Harris room, 48 feet 2 inches by 17 feet 7 inches, 18 feet 4 inches high, with two-story stack, 19 feet 4 inches by 12 feet 2 inches. Second floor: Map room and large room for the Catalogue of the Library of Congress.
Page 5 - Out of the cubical space actually provided, the reading room and the stack called for the largest units of bulk. The remaining requirements, of special libraries and administration, could be satisfied by smaller rooms variously disposed about the building. The relatively infrequent use made of the special libraries made it possible to place them without inconvenience on upper or lower floors. The rooms of the Librarian were purposely placed away from the main line of travel in order not to invite...
Page 8 - ... and for the central administration; and it will also contain the special collections, except the John Carter Brown Library (for Americana), which will continue to occupy the beautiful building erected for it a few years ago, a furlong away. " Nearly all the department libraries not connected with the laboratories will be accommodated in the old building; and the latter will communicate with the new by means of an electric book-carrier, thus making available to readers in either building the resources...
Page 17 - Access4o all these special collections is granted to students having definite need of consulting them, but ordinarily books desired from them are obtained at the loan desk. DEPORTMENT AND CARE OF THE BUILDING IT has not been necessary to post rules for deportment throughout the Library, as the students...
Page 3 - The top floor is devoted to special collections and study rooms. From it opens the eighth floor of the stack. Here are a large room and a study room in each case for the Rider Collection of Rhode Island History and the Wheaton Collection of International Law, a large unassigned room, two rooms for art folios and other art volumes, a room for rare books, and three study rooms overlooking the court, besides a large interior exhibition room lighted from above. Over the main entrance is a look-out alcove...
Page 9 - THE Library is so planned that most of the uses for which the undergraduate has occasion to visit it are provided for on the main floor. Directly out of the vestibule, which contains the Saint-Gaudens bust of John Hay...