Art Book Cases, see Furniture, Art Book Cases.
Art Book Room. All the large heavy books belonging to the Art Book Collection will be placed here in cases or on shelves.
There should be accommodation in this room or a nearby stack for 15,000 volumes.
If an Exhibition Room is not provided the Art Book Room together with the Photographs, Music and Manuscripts Rooms, might be connected so that when desired they could be converted into an Exhibition Room.
If convenient the Art Book Room should be near the Reference Room.
If located on different floors, the Art Book Room and Photographic Room should be connected by a large size book lift.
Auditor’s Office, see Finance Department.
Auditorium. It is a question whether in view of the nearness of the Brooklyn Institute the Library should provide an auditorium. If so, it should be capable of being turned into an Exhibition Room, which see.
It is probable that a seating capacity of 400 or 500 would be sufficient, although it may be thought best to provide for 1,500.
If arranged so as to be used as an Exhibition Room it might be sub-divided by movable partitions.