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188 reference reading-room on the left, the lending library in the centre, and the news-room on the right. The news-room is 84 feet by 22 feet, and seats eighty readers at the nine tables, and has reading stands for twenty-eight papers. It is well lit by windows on one side, and is under supervision from the lending library, from which it is separated by a

series of glass screens running the whole length of the room.

The reference reading-room is 48 feet by 20 feet, and seats forty-two persons. The lending- library is arranged upon the "open access" principle. A square enclosure for the attendant immediately faces the entrance doors, the readers entering by a gate in the left hand side, and leaving by a similar gate in the right. The books are shelved in cases