Public libraries. A treatise on their design, construction and fittings, with a chapter on the principles of planning, and a summary of the law (1907)
Champneys, Amian Lister · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 59
eight that steps and handles are an insufficient assistance for reaching the books at the top, and ladders of some sort have to be pro- vided. Even with cases of moderate height, ladders are often a great help in scrutinising the upper shelves, and in dusting and arranging the books. Step ladders… … of course, on the arrangement of the bookcases. Galleries should, as a rule, be such as to obstruct as little as possible the free diffusion of light and air. They are usually con- structed of iron, though sometimes with wooden floors. More olten, however, they have either roughened plate-glass…
Library architecture · Library fittings and supplies
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