The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-25
MORNING COURIER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 eo7

of hot and cold water throughout the building A large and well-lighted at- tic furnishes storage room for unused books.
 The leading contractors for the erection of the building have been: The Sperry and Treat Company of New Haven, for the masonry work; the Church Glass and Decorating Co.,, of New York, for the glazing; the Walworth Construction and Supply Co.,, of Boston, and T. w. Corbett of New Haven, for the plumbing and steam-fitting; the Bradley and Hub bard Co.,, of Meriden, the Hecla Iron Works of Brooklyn, and Lowering and GarFigues of New York. for the iron work; the Connecticut Marble and Tile Co.,, of New Haven, for the mar ble and tile work; the Johnston Liv- ingston, Jr., company of New York, for the electric wiring; the Otis Ele- vator company of New York, for the elevators; the Tiffany Studios of New York, for the electric light fixtures.
 MT. Haight beside supervising the erection of the building, has interested himself in planning the completion of the eventful library building As sug- gested by him, the building, when completed, will occupy the center of the west side of the campus; the pro- posed length being 264 feet, the ex- trerne depth 122 feet, The book stack will occupy the entire west front on High street. On the ground floor will be the vestibule, the entrance hall, leading to the delivery room, catalogue room, and various offices. The read ing room will be the central feature of the second story and will be ap- preached by broad staircase with several landsings, The detailed ar rangement of the future building will presumably follow the plan of Lins- ly hall, and provide for the various activities of the library. While the present enlargement of our plant will relieve the congestion, not many years will elapse before the need of still larger quarters will become urgent.
 Careful preparations have been made for moving a part of our collec- |tions into the new stack room in Lins- ly hall While this new stack has a maximum capacity of about 100000 volumes, not more than 100000 will be placed in it during the coming year with view to the demands of the fu- ture. The various classes of books will be distributed through the stack so as to be readily accessible to the various rooms where they will be most used, An opportunity is now given to bring together all the books in particular departments which hereto fore have been scattered in various parts of the library buildings. The first to gain by this arrangement will be the English department, which, owing to its large number of advanced students. deserves the first considera- ton.
 The second story of Chittenden will be renovated and arranged as gen. eral reading room as soon as the books it contains can be transferred to the new stack. The entire Linoni- an and Brothers library, with the ex- lception of the bound periodicals which | it contains, will be installed In one end of this room. The greater part of the room will contain well-lighted tables for readers, and, along the walls; books of reference and such books as are reserved in connection with special courses, or to cover cer- tain special topics of interest.
 The appropriation by the corpora ton of sum of money to cover the cost of improving and completing the catalogue will greatly increase the activities of the library, The moving | of the books into the new stack furn- ishes favorable opportunity to be- begin this important work and in the | fall of this year the library staff will be considerably increased with a view to pushing the undertaking The libra rian of congress has acted favorably upon our request to become depos- itory of all the printed catalogue cards of the library of congress. These now number some 275,000. They have in large part already reached us and will be supplemented at the rate of about 50,000 year. A special cata- logue case will contain these cards, in which they will be arranged as an al. phabetical author list. They will be accessible to the public, but will be especially used by our staff in com. pleting Autographed information ad with a view to ordering similar cards for use in our regular catalogue In this connection I cannot forbeai expressing my sincere appreciation oi the kindness of the officials of the IT, brary of congress, who have in more ways than can be enumerated beer helpful to us in our attempts to solve difficult administrative problems.
 The accessions to the library's stock of books and pamphlets during the past two years were as follows The enumeration ignores the difference be. tween bound and unbound books, as explained in the Librarians Report oi last year. It also takes no account oi the large number of duplicates receiv.
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 | Accessions. 1905-06 1s06-OT By purchase ,......... GAG 10,901
 By gift and bequest. ... 7,O62 12,9ss By exchange .,....... 2,42S 4,37t
 Total ........s,. 15,931 2s,26t