. Departmental or group libraries. atalo^^ue in each, duplicated in the main | i library. He admits that this is expensive but thinks it ou^jht notto be considered an argument against the system, if it is the best. At first separate libraries v/ere formed for all departments, | i even in related subjects, but later some of these were tendency now is to group departmental libraries, Mr. Wyer also recommended that rooms in the library buildingbe set apart for semxinars because the library ought to serve as alaboratory oi those sciences whose is chiefly to be ob-tained
. Departmental or group libraries. atalo^^ue in each, duplicated in the main | i library. He admits that this is expensive but thinks it ou^jht notto be considered an argument against the system, if it is the best. At first separate libraries v/ere formed for all departments, | i even in related subjects, but later some of these were tendency now is to group departmental libraries, Mr. Wyer also recommended that rooms in the library buildingbe set apart for semxinars because the library ought to serve as alaboratory oi those sciences whose is chiefly to be ob-tained from, books, as well as a book room and a great reading room. There are now no seminar rooms in the library building, exceptfor history. Here as at Chicago University the tendency ig toward group li-braries. Cornell University Library- 238,376 v. The University library the general library, sevenseminar libraries, the lav/ school library, the Flov/er veterinarylibrary and the library of the state college of forestry. The. 24 general library and the seminar libraries are all grouped under oneroof in the library building. The seminar rooms contain the seminar libraries proper, supple- mented by collections of works and periodicals from the generallibrary deposited in these rooms for use in seminar v/ork. Booksso deposited are available for the use of students in the generalreading room. The books forming the seminar libraries proper aresubject to such regulations as may be made for each seminar roomby the professor in charge, to v/hom application for admission tothe room must be roade. The books are treated as having a permanent place in the stackrooms, from which they rnay be v/ithdrav/n for an indefinite period. The purpose in placing the books in the seminar , is to ?put them where they may be used over and over without applicationbeing made for them., Princeton University Library. I At Princeton University there are four departmental libraries and eight semira
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