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tfCHEATIONAL READING FACILITIES THE UNIVERSITY" LIBRAPY Lewio C. Branscomb EXISTING FACILITIES al Library Browsing Room ary X) volume 8 -*B Mon.-rYi. 9-6, 7-10; Sat. 9-6 seating capacity Books circulate for 2 weeks 1 rovidcs recreational and general reading and offers readers advisory service to students Contains several newspapers and current magazines Circulates about 20,000 books annually ved 35,000 readers last year Illlr.i Union Browsing Boom 1 Illini lion 1500 volumes Open Mor.-Sat. 10-10; Sun. 2-10 3 seating capacity Books do not circulate out of building Provides recreational and general reading and readers' advisory service Served 66,000 readers last year Jr Library -man Reaiinc Boon 1 1000 volumes pen Mon.-Fri. 9-12, 1-6, 7-10; Sat. 9-12, 1-6 8 seating c acity Books circulate for one week Service aimed primarily at freshman rhetoric needs, but collection of fiction and general reading open to all students on campus irculates about 22.000 volumes annually

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Library pen shelf collection of some 5,000 volumes is used largely in co with undergraduate courses. There aro, however, about 500 volume fiction and general 1 ling available for reading in the room or out /eek'a loan. viMRc Clonal Beading Collection 35T fc Tf rocreatic T a n d general reading revolvr annually rmong the fi I rarieo at ] V. Music, Arcliitecture, Natural History and Home M o ™ £ » t use. The c lection provides recreational reader. l» these departmantal II ios where the otudonto work.