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LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE

a desk 2 feet by 2 feet 10 inches. This room is lit partly by a range of windows, 8 feet from the floor, extending round the south and east sides of the room, as shown on the plan, and partly by a range

of clerestory windows, shown in Fig. 124. A comparison of the two plans will show that the south side of the general reading-room and the reading-room for periodicals form, as it were, two aisles