. Departmental or group libraries. University of Minnesota Library - 83,000 v. In 1888 a^building was planned for the library of the Universityof Minnesota, quite similar in arrangement to Columbia Universitylibrary building. The rarely used books were to beplaced in the stack, the referencebooks in the reading room and spec-ial books in the seminar rooms. Stack Science 1 Hist. Lang, Scon. Lit. Phil. ReadR. 1 Per. But this plan does not seers, to have been followed because in1901 the university library comprised, besides the general library,a number of special libraries, consisting mainly of b
. Departmental or group libraries. University of Minnesota Library - 83,000 v. In 1888 a^building was planned for the library of the Universityof Minnesota, quite similar in arrangement to Columbia Universitylibrary building. The rarely used books were to beplaced in the stack, the referencebooks in the reading room and spec-ial books in the seminar rooms. Stack Science 1 Hist. Lang, Scon. Lit. Phil. ReadR. 1 Per. But this plan does not seers, to have been followed because in1901 the university library comprised, besides the general library,a number of special libraries, consisting mainly of books of refer-ence and current periodicals relating to technical subjects inconnection with the several departments. The special libraries arenear the class-rooms. The various laboratories have also reference libraries devotedto their special lines of work. University of Missouri Library, 40,000 v. The University of Missouri has a system of departmental libraries of the agricultural college, and of the departments. 22 chemistry, medicine, engineering, geology, zoology, botany and ro-. j mance languages wore in 1901 in the offices of the heads of the de- •partrcents. They are open at different times and for access to theip,;application must he made to the professor in charge. There v/as also a library of the school of nines at Rolla and a |separate law library, classical library and political science li-brary . During the last year the library of political science, zoologyand botany have been discontinued and their places taken by depos-its more or less permanent from tlie general library,. This systemof consolidation and substitution of deposits of books in placeof the departmental library will be continued. The three medical libraries and three engineering libraries aregoing to be consolidated into groups and the classical librarymerged into the main library, when a new building is erected. Probably the library of Homaneelanguages also v/ill go into the i main
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