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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... "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 4, 1960) - Page 390
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Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the ..., Volumes 11-13

American Library Association, American Library Association. Conference - Library science - 1889 - 518 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...
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Library Journal, Volume 16

Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1891 - 558 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...
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Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American ..., Volume 12

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...
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Libraries, Volume 1

Libraries - 1896 - 368 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...
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A Library Primer

John Cotton Dana - Library science - 1899 - 204 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,...
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A Library Primer

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...
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Handbook of the State Library Commission for the State of Delaware

Library legislation - 1904 - 112 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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