Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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THERE is space in the new wing of the library for 65-75,000 volumes. There are three stack levels, two of which have been filled, but funds have not been sufficient to install shelves in the third. Moreover 34,000 slides, not counting the two by twos, have been shifted from the old wing to the new, and ten professors have found new homes there. The building is completely fireproof and is composed of steel, concrete, and hollow tile. It will be, says Mr. Chew, in perfect harmony with the rest of the edifice when weathered. Five porters and five library assistants worked for a month trans- ferring books from the east to the west wing. Miss Terrien modestly admits she was a day ahead of them all the way. On the other hand it took Mrs. Landes four summer months, including Saturday afternoons and Sundays, to get the slides in order after she had tenderly conveyed each one by hand to its present habitat. Previously she had measured the space necessary to house every slide and picture. At the time the books were being put in the new stacks, the mercury was at its usual mid-June high; the plaster was still wet, and hot blasts from the furnace were being used to dry it. Consequently the temperature was well over a hundred degrees. Few students have been using the carrells in the new stacks. Miss Terrien attributes this, first, to the shyness of the girls who, since the space is limited, hesitate to deprive others of a desk, and second, to the fact that there are no fireplaces. The art department had trouble getting its new material assembled. Mr. Soper spent the summer trying to wangle projectors out of the factory but they were being made by craftsmen who preferred to spend leisurely 18