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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1919] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 397 House bill 729 A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF A LIVE STOCK BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. The following sums are hereby appropriated to the University of Illinois for the maintenance and operation of a live stock biological laboratory: Salaries and wages $5,000 per annum Operation $6,500 per annum Sec. 2. The appropriation herein made shall be subject to all the provisions, conditions and limitations of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to State Finance," approved , 1919, in force July 1, 1919. These bills were received for record. NEW LIBRARY B U I L D I N G (2) A communication from the Supervising Architect relating to the Library. President E. J. James> 355 Administration Building DEAR SIR: I enclose a memorandum showing the capacity of the book stacks in the plan which I showed you for the first section of the Library. I have made an approximate estimate of $500,000 on the cost of this unit, exclusive of book stacks. The stack capacity for the basement, first, and second floors would be 806,000 volumes. This would leave the entire third floor free for museum purposes. Yours truly JAMES M. W H I T E Supervising Architect MEMORANDUM Estimate on Book stacks for the New Library Building. MAIN FLOOR 18 rows of 15, 18, and 12-foot stacks 2 rows of 18 and 12-foot stacks 9 rows of 12, 15, and 9-foot stacks 1 row of 18-foot stacks 1 Wall stack—22)4 815 60 324 18 22^ lin. " " " " ft. " " " " Total .....1239^ " " Allowing seven and one-half (7}4) books per lineal foot of shelf, a double stack two decks high will contain 210 books per lineal foot, or 260,295 volumes in 1,239^ feet. In the basement and on the upper floors there are sixty more lineal feet of double deck stacks than on the first floor, which will increase the capacity 12,600 volumes, on each of these floors. On the top floor under the roof, there is height for three decks so that the capacity of the first section of the Library would be as follows: Basement 272,895 volumes First Floor 260,295 Second " 272,895 Third " 409,342 Which gives us a total of 1,215,427 " On motion of Mrs. Busey, the sum of $166,100 was appropriated toward the construction of the first unit of the new Library Building.
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