Reference Room in Library

The new Reference Room of the Gore Hall library adjoining the Delivery Room, has recently been opened. On one side will be found a few encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and general books of reference, of which some have heretofore been kept under the catalogue cases and some in the staff work-rooms. On the other side are collected various current indexes to newspapers and periodicals, bibliographies which supplement the subject catalogue, and printed catalogues of neighboring libraries from which the Library borrows when the need arises. Among these catalogues are many lists which are confined to special subjects or classes of books. A more detailed statement in regard to the various kinds of reference books and bibliographies can be made later.

In the Reference Room is also to be placed on inspection everything that is added to the Library, including books, pamphlets, annual reports, proceedings of learned societies and even periodicals, except those that are kept in the periodical alcove in the Reading Room. These will remain on exhibition for a week, so that anyone interested may readily keep himself informed in regard to the Library's acquisitions. It should be noted, however, that the more popular new books will be placed as heretofore on the "new book shelves" in the Delivery Room, and that books which have been ordered in haste at the request of individuals will be delivered to the persons who ordered them without delay.

A case of drawers has been built in this room for the convenience of professors who desire to have a place in the Library where they may keep their papers and memoranda.