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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June i, May 28, 1918

President E. J. James, 355 Administration

DEAR SIR:

Building

A stack room addition to the Library 34 x 67 feet, inside dimensions, will accommodate 41,000 volumes on each tier in height. We should, at the present time, build four of these tiers over the entire area? which will give us a book capacity of 164,000 volumes. Upon these stacks we can lay a permanent floor so as to make the space above them available for the cataloging department, which at the present time requires working space for 35 persons. Professor Windsor estimates that to take care of our normal annual increase for three or four years, and to provide shelf space for all the books which we now own, including duplicates and special libraries, will require a stack capacity of 200,000 volumes. 23,000 to 25,000 volumes stack capacity can be added in the basement rooms vacated by the working force, which siill leaves us short of the estimated needs. This building, built without any exterior finish, but permanent as far as the interior is concerned and with a low pitch fireproof roof, is estimated to cost $25,000. I have no bids on the book stacks, but they will undoubtedly cost? twenty cents (20 cents) a volume, which, for the 164,000 volume capacity, would be 32,800. For an additional $io?ooo we could install the elevator, build an unpacking room on the first floor of the court and extend the stack-room to the east wall of the court, which would give an additional book capacity of 35,280 volumes, with a corresponding increased cost of stacks of $7,056.00, Yours truly,

JAMES M. WHITE

Supervising Architect On motion of Mr. Carr, the Supervising Architect was authorized to proceed with the construction of the stack-room addition to the Library, including the elevator and the unpacking room, at a total estimated cost of $35,000. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Trimble, Miss Watson; noes, Mrs. Evans; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Hott, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward. Mrs. Evans explained her negative vote by stating that she could not vote for what she believed would be an unsightly structure.

RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR ROBERT GRAHAM

(12) A statement that, subject to the approval of the Board, he had accepted the resignation of Doctor Robert Graham as Professor of Animal Pathology to take effect June 1, 1918. This action was approved.