Jefferson Library

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To the Editor of The CRIMSON:

Every student who has occasion to use the physics library housed in the Jefferson Laboratory, must be impressed with the apparent lack of efficiency with which the library is conducted. It is a source of annoyance and distress to find essential reference books repeatedly missing from the shelves. The situation is particularly acute whenever an examination is scheduled.

Though it is a deplorable condition that the shortage of copies makes the overnight rule necessary, it is only fair to the other students that it be rigorously enforced. The planned segregation of the library from the departmental office will abate the present noise nuisance, but it will not improve the book situation unless some step is taken which will definitely control their use. H. C. Hatfield '33.