 | American Library Association. General Meeting - Library science - 1892 - 172 pages
...separate rooms, under one roof) has so far influenced library construction that modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books...want to use, whatever system of shelving is adopted. In a circulating library the books most in use should be shelved in floorcases close to the delivery... | |
 | Libraries - 1896
...the bookcases and the ceiling for circulation of air and the diffusion of light. Modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books...want to use whatever system of shelving is adopted. Single shelves should not be more than three feet long, on account of the tendency to sag. Ten inches... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - Library science - 1899 - 180 pages
...the bookcases and the ceiling for circulation of air and the diffusion of light. Modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books...want to use whatever system of shelving is adopted. Single shelves should not be more than three feet long, on account of the tendency to sag. Ten inches,... | |
 | John Cotton Dana - Library science - 1899 - 204 pages
...for circulation of air and the diffusion of light. Modern library plans provide accommodations for v readers near the books they want to use whatever system of shelving is adopted. Single shelves should not be more than three feet long, on account of the tendency to sag. Ten inches... | |
 | Library legislation - 1904 - 101 pages
...the book-cases and ceiling for circulation of air and the diffusion of light. Modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books...to use, whatever system of shelving is, adopted." Avoid having more partitions than you can dispense with — they take away from the sense of openness... | |
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Poole (classifying the books in departments and arranging them for storage and study in separate rooms, under one roof) has so far influenced library construction that modern library plans provide accommodations for readers near the books they want to... 