How to plan a library building for library work

[For the first chapters of this book, I am largely indebted to an interesting and scholarly volume by John Willis Clark, entitled “The Care of Books,” published in the year 1901...

I have mentioned these already under different headings, where they materially affected the size, shape, lighting, or situation of rooms. I shall not go into an enumeration or d...

The several rooms will be treated separately, also different methods of shelving. The phrase “book rooms” is not used herein as in England, where book store or book room means o...

What I shall call the light-reading room will provide for all who drop in at a library to pass a quiet, restful, recreative half hour, a very large proportion of readers. They a...

While books are the substance of a library and readers the object, how to bring them together is the key to arrangement of the plan; therefore the first consideration among room...

Special Rooms 322 Local Literature 323 Study 324 Classes 324 Patents, etc. 326 Public Documents 327 Duplicates 328 Art: Prints, etc. 329 Maps 331 Music 331 Education 332 Lecture...