. Departmental or group libraries. Departmental or Group Libraries. The problems involved in the arrangement of university librariesare very different from those in the arrangement of public university librae^ is primarily for study and the main object tobe sought in the arrangement is convenience for study. Some arrange-ment for study in the stacks must be made. Most university libraries have all their books in one building i but some of them think it is better to have some of the books nearer 1the class rooms, thus forming departmental libraries. By a departmental library is mean
. Departmental or group libraries. Departmental or Group Libraries. The problems involved in the arrangement of university librariesare very different from those in the arrangement of public university librae^ is primarily for study and the main object tobe sought in the arrangement is convenience for study. Some arrange-ment for study in the stacks must be made. Most university libraries have all their books in one building i but some of them think it is better to have some of the books nearer 1the class rooms, thus forming departmental libraries. By a departmental library is meant a collection of books,usually looked upon as a part of the general library, selected forthe special use of a department and kept in a convenient place inthe building or part of a building devoted to that departmental libraries may consist of (1) only a few standarddictionaries and reference books in the field of. the department andkept in the professors study or in the recitation room; (2) a. similar collection in a laborator^s (3) a liberal selection in aseparate room; (4) the whole body of books upon a particular subject. In this thesis (1) will be designated as class-room libraries,(2) as laboratory libraries, (3) as libraries, (4) asdepartmental libraries. The library of Johns Hopkins university carries the departmentalsystem so far that it has no central library, except a general^reference collection. At Harvard the departmental libraries do notcontain all the books on their subjects,some being kept in the main i library. At the University of Chicago the departmental libraries i, jlcontain practically all the books on their subjects, but there is aImain library. At Cornell and Princeton universities, the main collections ofbooks are kept in the stacks but there are also seminar rooms withinthe library building, yet not connected with the stacks. At Columbia University, the seminar rooms are combined with thestacks. The different plans will be con
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