The entire second floor is devoted to the reading room, The ceiling is arched with a beam and panel effect. and the height in the centre is 20 ft. The treatment of the ceiling, which is light buf with dark brown beams, iver @ most pleasing effect. The room is excertionally: well lighted and commands a splendid view of the campus and the Whangpoo River.
At one side of the room is the desk, connected by the "stack—rooms desk is beautifully constructed of teak from Indo-China and forms the focus of the room. Space.behind the desk is Provided for reserve books while other open cases in front care for reference books and magazines, These shelves, together with files, reading desks and are built of Iauan from the Philippine Islands. Table space is students, provided for more than 200
The completion of the building meets a need which has been, mare The library has previously been housed in four rooms and an enclosed hallway in Yates Hall, the administration and classroom building. Books have been crowded in every available corner and reading space has -been at a premium. Students have frequently waited in Tine before the opening of the library rooms after supper in order to be sure of a seat,
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