University of Maine at Portland - Reflection / Umpire Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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1019,31gy TWF OR THE FUTURE ' 1111414, The UMP Library,r currently occupies the 611- II T l t I r tire western end of the Brst Haor of Payson Smith Hall, but it will soon move to a new building which will provide approximately six times as much space for books and study facilities. Dr. Keyes D. Metcalf, who designed the Lamont Library at Harvard, has conferred with Dr. James C. MacCampbell of Omno and Miss Duval of UMP to make sure that Our new library, whose construction is scheduled to start next summer, will embody the latest improve- ments in college library design. J Individual carrels, similar to the one shown at the lower right, will be provided in suHicient numbers so that students may work with undis- turbed efficiency close to the particular books to which the need to refer. y Judy DeBocher checks references in the card files. Harold Sonia studies in an individual camel. I. -..1...---FI -' hi??? '. l I 'l. .- IIKK : . .. v x .

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LIBRARY STAFF PLAij Under the direction of Miss Marjorie Duval, Head Librarian at UMP, our college library is meeting the needs of students enrolled in an increasing variety of day and evening cburses. Mr. Franklin Talbot, our Catalogucr, who is pictured at the left, and Miss Marian Shaw, our Catalog Consultant, work industriously behind the scenes so that students engaged in reference assignments may locate sources of material with maximum emciency. The picture below shows Mrs. Dorothy Craig, Mrs. Muriel Leighton, Miss Duval, and Miss Shaw processing books before they are plawd in the stackst 20

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Our Library Is Our Center of :' ' ; I. ' 1 Learning, but . . . Though the Spirit Is Willing, . . . The F lesh Is Sometimes Weak! 22