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270 On entering the building a large lobby gives access to the delivery room on the left, and the main staircase on the right. A reading-room, 50 feet by 38 feet, for periodicals occupies the angle. The delivery room is 56 feet by 40 feet, and has a counter running across one side of it, with a door at the one end into a catalogue-room, 40 feet by 31 feet, and at the

other into the stack-room. The latter runs half the length of the longest side of the site, and is 138 feet long by 50 feet wide, and 21 feet in height. A public passage-way runs down the centre, giving admittance to a special reading-room at the east end, 50 feet by 35 feet. The frontage on the south side