Manuscript Department. Room where valuable manuscripts would be kept. It might be near Map or Art Book Room and form one of the latter suite.
Map Room. Provision should be made in this room for the convenient handling of maps of various sizes and kinds.
This should be near the Reference Room for the sake of supervision.
Mechanical Service and Equipment, see Book Carriers, Telephones, etc.
Music Room. Provision should be made here or in a nearby Stack for 15,000 bound volumes of books about music, and for the musical scores which will be placed flat on shelves or in drawers. (It might form one of the suite with the Art Book Room, etc.) The circulation of books from this department might be from the room itself rather than from the Main Delivery Desk.
Adjoining should be a piano room with thick walls to deaden sound.
Newspaper Reading Room. If out-of-town newspapers are supplied a larger room will be needed than as though only local papers are taken. (It is a question whether it is best to supply local papers at all). In any event the papers will be in newspaper files on regular racks placed on the walls or separate stands. No shelving (unless for local papers) need be provided here, but in an adjoining room the back numbers will be made accessible.
This room should be on ground floor with separate outside entrance if any papers are taken.
The bound volumes of newspapers take up much room and ample space should be provided in adjoining Stack so that they might be placed flat on roller shelves and provision made for 5,000 volumes and growth for twenty-five years.
Open Shelves, see Delivery Department.