MODERN LIBRARY PLANNING The three types of libraries represented by the two works of Labrouste and the British Museum, are the elementary types on which virtually all large modern libraries are based. To the type of the Ste. Genevieve ; i.e., with a reading room lighted on both sides, with books along the walls or in alcoves, and with a storage under the reading room, belong the New York public library (Carrere and Hastings, architects, 1897), the library of the Uni versity of Chicago (Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects, 191o) and the Philadelphia free library (H. Trumbauer, architect, 1915-27). To the type of the Bibliotheque Nationale; i.e., with a reading room parallel or perpendicular to the stacks, belong the project for the library of Berlin by Hosfield (1875), the Widener Memorial library at Harvard, the Toronto library and many uni versity libraries. To the type of the British Museum ; i.e., with a circular reading room surrounded by the book-stacks and lighted by high windows or skylights, belong the Columbia university library, New York (McKim, Mead and White, architects, 1897), the library of Strasbourg (Hartel and Neckelmann, architects, 1895) and the library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Smigh
meyer, Pelz and Casey, architects, 1886-97). The original scheme for this last library had radiating book-stacks, like the Delessert scheme, but it was abandoned for a block entirely filling the light courts. The economy of space which this effects cannot be ques tioned, but opinions differ widely as to the advisability of packing the book-stacks so closely withoutallowing other than artificial light.
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