In this Appendix are printed quotations from the outlines for planning two of the largest of recent libraries, both public.
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APPENDIX
CONCRETE EXAMPLES
By permission of the librarians of the New York Public Library and of the Brooklyn Public Library, I print here extracts from their respective “Terms of Competition” (already printed in pamphlet form) for the building just completed, and “General Suggestions to the Architect” for the building soon to be erected. The latter, hitherto unpublished, is very full, and is cross referenced and annotated, therefore likely to prove especially helpful.
I thus present practical details of the planning of two large recent American library buildings, in the hope of throwing a fresh light on the problems I have treated.
It will be noticed that one of these libraries was built after an architectural competition; the other has been planned, and will be built, after the method preferred in this book, selection of the architect at the outset, without competition.
Librarians, architects and building committees about to plan a very large library may review their subject in these summaries; and those engaged in less extensive plans may select the rooms and combinations which meet their own needs.
The side headings and italics are mine.