SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS - cont.
Requested For

1930-31 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39
Library Stack Extension
Appropriation ~~ --~ $75,000 75,000

The library stack, inadequate when built, accommodates only
121,000 books. Makeshift stacks in corridors and shelving in
reading rooms take care of 54,000 more; and branch libraries, badly
overcrowded and in need of relief, contain about 47,000 volumes,
This leaves an overflow of 44,000 which has to be stored, and thus
is unavailable to the public. To this overflow the library is
adding about 9,000 volumes a year. The book appropriation should
be increased to bring the University collection in line with those
of other universities in this area, but even if money were avail-
able it would be useless to do so until adequate stack space is
added. To remedy this deplorable condition it is urged that the
stack be extended 70 feet west in conformity with the original
building plans, and filled to one-half its capacity with steel
stacks (additional shelf space for 210,000 volumes).

Nev Roiler,-Hech. Bars Lids
Appropriation ~—- -—= 71500 oo

The boiler for generation of steam needed to operate engines
and apparatus in the mechanical engineering laboratory has been
condemned and declared as beyond repair, by the boiler inspector.
Replacement should be made at once, since the laboratory is forced
to run this year without a boiler.