The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-08-28

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NEW CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY.
brary is about to be permanent,
opened On the Saturday following tn
recent adjournment of congress, tn
new librarian, Hon. John Russell Young
closed the old library for the purpos
Of transferring to the new librar'
building its books, its treasures, its Gu
rios, its Klondyke mines of golden in
telligence. When all of these valuable
volumes are seen again by the public
| they will be in perfect order on tn,
| cummodious stacks and shelves in tn,
attractive halls of the most beautiful
library building in the world
The decision of Librarian Young Il
close the library so soon after the adj
Journmcnt of congress was born oil
necessity. The work of removal is {
stupendous task. TO finish this, and tc
open the library again with the least
possible Inconvenience to those who
frequent it, were the two objects to BE-
aimed at. The number of readers grows
less as summer advances, and increases
pgain with its end and the coming fall
There are over 100000 volumes to be re-
moved and arranged in the new build
ing. The accumulation of other ma
terial is enormous. 1t is in different
looms, alcoyes and stories. Some is on
shelves, some in chaotic heaps, some
is classified, and much is unclassitied.
The question how to safely and ex-
Peditiously remove this matter from
these places, and retain its classifica-
ton, and put it all so that 1t will be at
cnce available, was discussed at length
by Mr. Young, Mr.. Spofford, Mr.. Hutch
enson and uperintendent Green, who
is charged by law with the work of
removal.
1T was considered as an engineering
problem. A system of carding the books
as they start, and numbering the new
stacks, was finally settled upon. Chutes
will be built to slide the books in boxes
down the front steps of the capitol. The
men will load the boxes in wagons, and
at the new library these boxes will
he received and carried to their places
n plan showing every deck, and shelf,
and division of the shelves has been
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