. Departmental or group libraries. dmitted to these rooms only bya card issued by the librarian to matriculated students on therecommendation of a professor. It has been found impracticableto admit all the students to the stacks. These rooms are separated from each otlier by foldingdoors and the whole apartment is under a special attendant. Thisarrangement of rooms is intended to give advanced students andinvestigators in certain fields the fullest opportunity to carry ontheir v/ork by the use of a quiet room in the vicinity of the lit-erature of their subjects. The lav/ library is in the libr
. Departmental or group libraries. dmitted to these rooms only bya card issued by the librarian to matriculated students on therecommendation of a professor. It has been found impracticableto admit all the students to the stacks. These rooms are separated from each otlier by foldingdoors and the whole apartment is under a special attendant. Thisarrangement of rooms is intended to give advanced students andinvestigators in certain fields the fullest opportunity to carry ontheir v/ork by the use of a quiet room in the vicinity of the lit-erature of their subjects. The lav/ library is in the library building but is under sepa-rate administration. In 1898 departmental libraries were formed for the departmentsof civil engineering, raining engineering and physiology. In theColumbia University quarterly for March 1900, Mr. James H, Ganfield,the librarian says, More study rooms of every description areneeded; a series of science rooms, with the choicest booksupon adjoining and accessible shelves. Many of the so-called. ;5i departmental libraries which are now scattered here and thereshould be brought back to the common center, The Quartorly for December 1900 says: There is a ^;rov/ing feel-ing among all interested parties that the creation of libraries in science divisions has been a far as possible all books should be housed in the main libraryand made accessible as possible. Evening v/ork is practically I impossible in a departmental library, In his report for 1900 - 1901 Mr, Canfield says: During theyear a large number of departmental libraries have been merged inthe general library-, the department interested taking the initiativein this movement. It is beginning to be clearly recognized thatwhen the interests of all concerned are taken into consideration,the departmental library as necessarily administered in this uni-versity is not desirable. The policy of the university shouldbe to place in the hands of the officers of e
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