Shades. Should be provided for all windows.
Shelving. It seems best to leave the matter of shelving for the different rooms until a conference can be had with the Architect regarding the dimensions and location of the different rooms.
Site. The site is a quadrilateral, measuring 69 feet 8 inches on the Plaza, 332 feet on the Parkway, 486 feet 0 inches along the Reservoir fence and 498 feet 4 inches along Flatbush avenue.
Special Collections, see Bell Collection, Manuscripts, Rare Books, etc.
Special Study Rooms, see Study Rooms.
Stack. Accommodations should be provided for 1,500,000 or 2,000,000, as suggested by Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin. Estimates may be based on an allowance of eight volumes to the running foot, except where reference books and art books are to be shelved, when not more than six volumes should be allowed. It should be in the rear of building if natural light is desired or in the centre if electric light can be provided. In the latter case all of the outside space could be utilized for rooms. Attention is called to the fact that Boston, New York and the John Crerar Library, Chicago, have found artificial light for stacks sufficient.
It goes without saying that this of all parts of the building should be fireproof, with emergency fireproof doors between this and the main building.
Each stack story will be 7 feet to 7½ wide, in the clear, the architect to name, when submitting the plans, the particular stack to be used. No stack should be more than 7 feet high, 9 or 12 feet long; 8 inches deep, if single, or 16 inches deep if double, back to back; 12 inches if reference. The aisles should be 3 feet wide, with side aisles 3 to 4 feet wide along the walls.
Provision should be made for the maximum capacity indicated and the Architect should show how the stack could be extended to serve for double the capacity.
Under shelving will be indicated the wall capacity desired.