Western Washington University - Klipsun Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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LIBRARY AT NIGHT it is mainly a reference and professional library for teachers, a compre- hensive collection of books on subjects related to a liberal education are found on the shelves here. On the second floor, too, is situated the delivery hall and the charg- ing desk serving the reading room and the closed stacks where choice volumes and bound magazines are kept. The catalogue is located in the left alcove of this hall. Nearby are a work room and the offices of the head librarian, the cataloguer and the reference librarian. Students may drop into these offices any time and the librarians are always ready to help them solve their problems. In the reserve book and periodical room on the first floor, books are found that the instructors require to be read. Current magazines and newspapers are accessible, in this room, at all times. The size of this room in comparison with the large reading room is indicative of the ex- tent to which independent work is being done by the students. The children ' s reading room across from the periodical room pro- vides a pleasing contrast with the large reading room on the second floor. Here the furniture is designed and arranged to meet the needs of three sizes of children, varying from the smallest tots of the primary to the upper grade children. Shelves and wall spaces are so arranged that interesting and valuable accessory material and displays can be brought before the eyes of the children. Some three thousand books are found on the shelves in the children ' s room. Courses in children ' s literature are given in every curriculum and it is here that the students find the books and contacts that make these courses worth while. The prominent location of the children ' s reading room symbolizes what the school pri- marily stands for, the preparation of teachers of children. Eighteen

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