tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/itemsItems2023-11-30T16:48:11Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394472016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:11ZDelivery roomFrom text: "The Delivery Room proper, which extends across the entire width of the building, with a length of 134 and a depth of 48 feet, is divided into three parts by a rotunda in the center, surmounted by a beautiful stained-glass dome. Elliptical arches rise from the marble piers at the four corners, and the walls above are elaborately covered with mosaics, into which are worked the devices of the early printers and other appropriate designs. The wings of the Delivery Room are wainscoted in Carrara marble, above which extends a frieze of glass mosaic, containing large panels of green serpentine marble inlaid with white inscription in ten different languages, and also in various characters, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to modern Roman. Four large book-rooms, equipped with three-deck steel stacks with glass floors, and having a capacity of 350,000 volumes, open directly into the Delivery Room."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394522016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:12ZBranch reading roomFrom text: "A goodly portion of well-chosen juvenile books serves to attract the children of the neighborhood, whose interest is further enlisted by means of an occasional story hour, when stories of the famous myths and heroes of other times and climes are told by an expert children's librarian."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394532016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:12ZBlackstone branch interiorFrom text: "This beautiful structure is worthy of particular mention, not only because it is one of the finest and costliest library buildings of its size in the world, but also because it marks the beginning of the branch library system in Chicago. The location is a triangular lot at the intersection of Lake and Washington avenues and Forty-ninth street. .. It is constructed of white granite in the pure Ionic-Grecian style, modeled after the famous Erectheum at Athens. The interior embodies a book-room on the left, with a capacity of 20,000 volumes, a reading room on the right, and a small reading room for young people at the rear, all opening from a rotunda that is finished in pure Italian statuary marble, and is surmounted by a dome embellished with decorative panels by Oliver Dannatt Grover."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394482016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:11ZReference roomFrom text: "… the Reference Department, designed to serve and assist readers who may come to pursue their studies within the Library building. This department controls the entire resources of the Library. No card or guaranty of any sort is required, the only condition being that books shall not be taken from the room. All books that circulate for home use may be used here, and in addition many thousands of volumes not adapted to general circulation, by reason of their size, their costliness, or their rarity are at the free disposal of the patrons of this department. A staff of trained assistants is ready to lend aid ..."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394492016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:11ZReading room for young peopleto direct and attract their tastes toward wholesome and sane channelsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394412016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZChicago Public LibraryCaption: "The Chicago Public Library". From text: "The Chicago Public Library is a free public institution, established under the Illinois library law of 1872, and maintained by the city as part of its public educational system. It derives its revenue from an annual library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is governed by a Board of Directors of nine members appointed by the Mayor and holding office for three years. It is housed in a building built entirely at the public expense, which ranks among the largest and finest library buildings in the country. It is accessibly situated on a tract of public land half a square in extent, on Michigan boulevard, fronting eastward upon Grant Park, at a point almost equidistant from the north and south limits of the city."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394512016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:11ZDavis Square branch reading roomFrom text: "The wide distribution of Chicago's population has made it necessary to provide small branch or deposit libraries in the residence districts, thus, in a measure, carrying the benefits of the Library to those who cannot conveniently come to it. These are established at convenient points throughout the city and were formerly housed in rented quarters, frequently in narrow stores which posses the one advantage of being the only procurable space in the neighborhood. But arrangements recently made with park boards have enabled the Library to install attractive little reading rooms in suitable quarters set aside in the field houses of many of the small parks that are being created in congested sections." Davis Square Park is located at 4430 S. Marshfield Avenue, Chicago.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394502016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:11ZReading roomFrom text: "The Reading Room for current periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the building occupying the entire north front on the fourth floor. Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received and kept on file here, comprising all the popular American and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selection of the best publications in German, French, and other continental languages, and daily newspapers from every important city in the United States and every capital and many other cities of Europe. Trade and professional journals of many kinds are also included."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library