Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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I918] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 723 warrants on the University Treasurer, in case of emergency; provided, that under no circumstances shall the Comptroller sign the names of both the President and the Secretary to the same warrant or voucher. MATTERS SUBMITTED BY PRESIDENT JAMES The Board considered the following matters submitted by the President of the University. ADDITIONAL STACK-ROOM FOR LIBRARY (1) A request from the University Librarian, Mr. P L. Windsor, that provision be made immediately for additional shelf room for the purpose of housing books belonging to the University and those likely to be added in the next few years. Mr. Windsor urges that a book stack to accommodate several thousand books be erected near the present Library building. Professor White suggests that a building thirty-eight feet wide and one hundred forty feet long might be erected to the west of University Hall, extending east and west practically on an axis with John Street, and centering on the present axis of the Library book stack, but about eighteen feet away from it and with a bridge across from the main floor Level. Such a structure built of brick without any interior finish, with a cement floor on the ground and an open wood roof with tar and gravel surfacing would cost about $'20,000, and would house easily in three 7-foot tiers of stacks 200,000 volumes. The book stacks in the present Library might be enlarged either by extending them to the south or by an addition across the south end of the present building. This would cost much more and might be an undesirable permanent addition to the building. Such a structure as Professor White proposes would be of temporary character and might stand until the new Library could be completed, and the expenditure would not be so great that it could not be properly scrapped. After discussion, this matter was deferred for further consideration, no action being taken. SCHOOL OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS (2) The matter of providing extra space for the U. S. School of Military Aeronautics (See page 719)- On itnotion of Mr. Carr, the President of the University was authorized to meet the wishes of the government in this matter. ARRANGEMENTS FOR USE OF Y. M. C. A. BUILDING The following statement: I regret to say that I have not been able to make any satisfactory arrangement with the Y. M. C. A. organization concerning the use of the Y. M. C. A. building for the U. S. School of Military Aeronautics. I am still laboring on the proposition, however, and hope to work out a plan which will be acceptable to the Y. M. C. A. authorities and will seem feasible and proper to us. (3) This statement was received for record.
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