New Bio-Medical Library

THE Charles A. Dana Foundation has given $400,000 to Dartmouth College to help finance a new library for the medical and biological sciences to be named the Charles A. Dana Library.

President Dickey said the Dana Library will serve as a focal point for both instructional and research work at undergraduate and graduate levels in biology and medicine. The new library is an integral part of a plan to strengthen the existing close working relationships between the Dartmouth Medical School and the College's undergraduate Department of Biological Sciences.

Construction is scheduled to begin this summer on a site near the new Dartmouth Medical Sciences Building.

The Dana Library will house some 60,000 volumes concerning the medical and life sciences that are now in the College's central Baker Library.

The Dana Foundation was founded by Charles A. Dana of Wilton, Conn., and New York City, a lawyer, financier, industrialist, and philanthropist. His wife and son, Charles A. Dana Jr., are also trustees of the foundation and are active in several other philanthropic enterprises.

The foundation has been especially interested in education, health and welfare, and religion with the avowed purpose of providing "help for those who accept and discharge responsibility for a better future."

The three-story brick building will contain about 20,000 square feet of space for book stacks, individual and group reading rooms, general reading areas, typing rooms, and offices.

It will be able to accommodate about 160 readers at one time and will have stack space for about 120,000 volumes.

The Dana Library's ground floor will contain one group study, four individual studies, a staff lounge, book-stack space, and a small reading area. The main floor will contain the control and reserve desk, the librarian's and staff offices, and a rare book room. The top floor will contain book stacks, two group study rooms, and five individual studies.

In addition, individual study carrels will be interspersed about the stack areas.

The Baker Library collections that will be moved include about 34,000 items dealing with the medical sciences, 22,000 dealing with the biological sciences, and 4,000 from closely related fields of study. Included are about 500 titles of medical and biological periodicals.

Architect's sketch of the Charles A. Dana Library to be built near the Medical School.