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Useful Reference Series No. 7

How to Plan a
  Library Building
    for Library Work

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Prelude

Every public building should express, with dignity
Its individual type, use, place, and era.
A library is a prominent public building
As practical and technical as a schoolhouse;
A workshop for the future, not a relic of the past.
Seldom rich enough for its needs, it abhors waste.
Change and growth will soon supplant it.
Build it for use, not show; for now, not for ever:—
Tastefully, tactfully, thriftily, thoroughly.
To plan it, find an able librarian,
To construct it, get a skillful architect,
To control both, choose a wise committee.
These three, by patient study and debate,
Can satisfy taste without sacrificing use—
Achieving complete and felicitous success.

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HOW TO PLAN
A LIBRARY BUILDING
FOR LIBRARY WORK

By CHARLES C. SOULE
A.B. Harv. 1862

Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas

—Vitruvius de Architectura

BOSTON
THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY
1912

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Copyright, 1912
By CHARLES C. SOULE

The Riverdale Press, Brookline, Boston, Mass.

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To
The Architect
who is the Librarian’s best friend
when they plan together
a sound, useful and beautiful building
this volume is inscribed

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EDITORIAL PREFACE

Of the author of this volume it was said byPresident Hill at the 1906 A. L. A. Conference,“he has given the subject of Library Architecturemore thought and attention, probably,than any other member.”

Mr. Soule is well known to older librarians.To introduce him to a younger generation andto architects, we would say that although he isa publisher and bookseller, and not professionallya librarian, he has had an effective training inlibrary science. He joined the American LibraryAssociation in 1879, became at once a workingmember, has attended twenty Conferences, andhas been elected to office, as follows:

  • 1888-1899—Trustee of the Brookline (Mass.) Public Library.
  • 1890-1908—Publishing Board, A. L. A.
  • 1890—Vice-president.
  • 1893-1896, 1900-1905—Member of the Council.
  • 1894-1906—Trustee Endowment Fund.
  • 1906-1912—Member of the Institute.

In 1890, when a prominent trustee

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