Order Department, see Book Order Department, see also Supply Department.
Order and Receiving Room, see Book Order Department.
Packing Room. Books are received here from the Cataloguing Department and sent out to the Branches.
It should be on the ground floor near the Book Order and Supply Departments and contain bins for at least forty branches, so that when books and supplies are to be sent out they may be placed in specific places preparatory to being shipped, and thus facilitate the distribution of everything to branches.
The bins might be on rollers or tracks unless it is found better to make them permanent and use ordinary trucks around the room.
Parcel Room, see Coat Room.
Patent Room. All reports and specifications relating to American and foreign patents belong in this room or adjoining Stack.
It should be near the Reference and Public Documents Rooms.
Provision should be made in the room itself for seventy-five or one hundred readers, shelving for the most used volumes, and near a stack to contain 20,000. Many of the specifications will be laid flat. Boston seems large enough if sufficient stack space is provided.
Periodical Reading Room. The current magazines will be placed on tables and racks, and the bound volumes of periodicals would be used in this room as well as in the Reference Room. It should therefore be near stack with capacity of 50,000 volumes for bound periodicals. The room should be connected with or under the Reference Room, with stairs connecting.