. Departmental or group libraries. f the departmental system is indispensable but all the library resources of the university should be rec- ognised as belonging to the university as a whole and should be as easily accessible as possible. 2. In the interest of investigators, whose studies must often cross the lines separating departments and even groups, it is desirable to concentrate the library resources at some one point. There should therefore be one central building. 3. In the case of all departments having laboratories and some having museums, their library resources should be in large p
. Departmental or group libraries. f the departmental system is indispensable but all the library resources of the university should be rec- ognised as belonging to the university as a whole and should be as easily accessible as possible. 2. In the interest of investigators, whose studies must often cross the lines separating departments and even groups, it is desirable to concentrate the library resources at some one point. There should therefore be one central building. 3. In the case of all departments having laboratories and some having museums, their library resources should be in large part in the same building Virith such laboratories and museums. 4. In the interest of undergraduates, it is highly desirable that there should be carefully selected libraries, near the lecture rooms. The board also reccirjnended that the University erect a central library building to contain the general library and eight group li- braries, namely: 1. Philosophy and history. 2. Theology and Semitic languages 3. Classical languages. 20 4. Modern languages 5. Mathematics and astronomy 6. Physics and chemistry 7. Biology and geology 8, Music and fine arts That there be maintained for each department or group in the lec-ture room building of such department or group a local library, ad-ministered in connection with the related group library building. That the local libraries be of two kinds as respects function: In groups 6-7 departmental (research) libraries; In groups 1-5 and 8 undergraduate libraries. That the group libraries be in all cases research libraries butin groups 6-7 subsidiary to the main departmental libraries in thedepartmental building. This report was discussed by the University congregation andbrought forth much difference of opinion. Action upon the reportwas postponed until a later meeting. In this university the tendency is to consolidate departmentallibraries into groups and these will probably all be placed in thelibrary building, v/hen a new building is erect
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