LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS

In harmony with the general spirit of expansion and improvement existing in the College, various changes have been made at the College Library. A room has been set apart for fiction, poetry, and art; the former reading room has been refitted and enlarged, and the works of Dartmouth graduates have been placed in cases by themselves. These important changes and improvements, extending through the first semester, are characteristic of the efforts of Professor M. D. Bisbee, Librarian, and. Miss Etta M. Newell, Assistant Librarian.

The room devoted to fiction, poetry, and art is the octagonal room on the north side of the ground floor. Here are collected, in convenient position and arrangement, all the English and American fiction and poetry in the possession of the library, besides various works on art, and many translations from foreign authors. The art books are placed on a large center table. On a separate shelf are gathered all the new books of general interest added during the year. The delightful freedom allowed in this room has made it one of the most popular places in College.

The former reading room, on the east ground floor, has been fitted with new tables, shelves, and other furnishings, As before, the current magazines cover the tables, and at the edges of the room are bound newspapers and magazines, for which special shelves have been made. Indexes of most of these papers have been provided.

The most important and unique addition to the reading room, however, is the bookcase set apart for the works of alumni and professors of Dartmouth, many of which have already been placed here. A list of these works will soon be published. This, it is hoped, will stimulate Dartmouth alumni to send their books to the library so that this collection may be made as nearly complete as possible. As it is, the collection is large and the range of subjects wide, extending from Professor Greenleaf's arithmetics' to Richard Hovey's poetry.