BODLEIAN LIBRARY
A LARGE UNDERGROUND STORE. Tho Underground Bookstore, recently completed in the basement of Ihc Radclift'o Camera of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, was formally opened latl month. In the course of his address, Mr. Fhlconrr Madah (Bodloy's librarian) t-aid that the problem which they hud to face was that the Camera basement was, overcrowded. Last Jul.v it contained 200.000 volumes. To relievo this pressure they had placed in one corner of the new chamber minor theology, and in another bcicncc. Besides that, there were cfigau- • ttc series, like the Times from 1808, and the London Gazette, and some 100 yards of bound orduanco maps, as well as much more that were not old books, from Iho Bodleian quadrangle. There were in the whole library about 1,700,000 separate wofks, but, owing to the old practice of binding several works together, there were not more than about 800,000 volumes as they stood on the shelves. Tho increase was over 200 a day from one years end to another, and it was calculated that the new chamber would la&t them about twenty-jive years. Then a second would be built on the other 6ide of the Camera. Tho buildings could contain when filled with iron book stacks over a million octavos. At present they had 200 stacks out of 1500, and about 120,000 volumes. Tho building was a pioneer work. He believed it to be the large&fc underground bookstore in (he world. If it was a success, as it appeared to be, ho would prophecy that within hfty years every college and institution would have a similar receptacle for its j stores beneath its front quadrangle.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 10
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