Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Library [PAGE 9]

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The work rooms of the Catalog and Order departments are on the second floor, in the north wing, being located as close as possible to the public card catalog. These two departments occupy one large room, with windows on opposite sides of the room, giving good light and ventilation. The cases for the union card catalog serve as a dividing line between the two departments. Across the corridor are book stacks in which the new and uncataloged books are shelved temporarily. One of the lower floors of these stacks is used for keeping the stock of University publications needed for exchange with other institutions. A reading room for Commerce, Economics and Sociology is located on the second floor in the south wing. The Library School occupies on the third floor of the north wing a large study room with desks for about 100 students, six offices for members of the faculty, and two smaller study rooms. The bronze portrait tablet of the first Director of the Library School, Miss Katherine Lucinda Sharp, by Lorado Taft, presented by Alumni of the School, hangs in the Corridor near these rooms. Graduate reading rooms for History, Political Science and Modern languages, equipped with book shelves for the most used