The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-25
A NEW LIBRARY
 FOR COLLEGE GIRLS Smith College Graduates to Create Unique h.
 stitution. FOR BOOK WORKSHOP A Movement Sure to Catch Attention of Libra
 rians.

Northampton, Sept. 24.-From it's 5000 women graduates Smith col lege has to-day been pledged more than $5O,OOO toward a modern working li- brary for the 1,5OO students who are Just returning to this city. In less than year this fund has been raised by individuals and groups of the college alumnae. Twelve thousand dollars yet remain to be made up by the loyal graduates Of Smith, when a gift of $62,500, which has been con- ditionally offered toward the new li- brary building will be assured.
 So surely are the heads of this movement for a practical womens col lege library relying on the generous spirit of their graduate sisters that al- ready plans are being matured for the unique institution. Josephine A. Clark, librarian trained and ex- perienced by many years of govern ment work, has today come here from Washington to take up the preliminary work of planning and conducting the undertaking. Drawings are already being made for the building, which will correspond in its details with the original and progressive ideas of it's projectors.
 What the carpenter finds in his tool chest, it is aimed to offer each one of the thousand and half students of Smith in the new working library Inn mediate access to any one of the list of 5000 works, which scientific librari- ans assert includes every necessary or desirable book for any undergraduate, must be provided at all times for as many as come to its doors. To the | girl who looks for absolute quiet and congenial surroundings for study, the new library will be designed to afford unlimited opportunities. Only to a girl who may care to dabble in the pages of rare works or finger musty manuscripts will the working library of Smith prove deficient. The delights | of the bibllomanlac and speculative curiosity are things strictly subordin- ated to workaday reading and ready I IGlGIClIC6 IHlN USWcHI lyP0 OI tt woman's literary workshop.
 Since the New England college for women was founded in this city, S2 years ago, the student of Smith has
 been almost entirely dependent upon ] two public libraries for her research work and upon her dormitory quarters
 for her study reading, In Seelye
 hall, the modern recitation building
 which marks 0 more recent period in the steady growth of the college, lim- tied accommodations have of late years been maintained for the books which form the nucleus of the library. Here score of girls may find in some nook or other of the cramped quar- ters temporary haven for quiet read
 ing. With the opening of the new H.
 brary in the midst of the attractive campus. which was originally laid out l by Donald G. Mitchell, center of reading and retirement will be estab- | lished which 1t Is believed few col leges in this country enjoy to-day As only a comparatively small sum
 of money stands between Smith coI- 1 lege and the realization of this ideal,
 1t Is earnestly hoped by the graduates
 who are pushing the work that funds l will warrant its undertaking before another college term begins. When
 the new student workshop is opened,
 the development of the idea which it l represents will be eagerly observed by
 librarians and university workers the ! country over.