File:Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress (1901) (14589827610).jpg

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Title: Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Library and Information Services
Publisher: Library of Congress
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nds to all correspondence, contracts, accounts, and dis-bursements pertaining to the Superintendents office, andalso audits and pays all vouchers and rolls of the Libraryproper, of the United States Botanic Garden, and of allother disbursing accounts that may come under the super-vision of the Joint Committee on the Library. From twentyto thirty separate appropriations are thus handled annually. watch. Watch.—The watch division includes a captain (room B 2), lieutenant, and 18 watchmen, a carpenter, a painter, aforeman, 13 general laborers, 2 check boys at the mainentrance, 2 women attendants for ladies room, and 42 char-women. Day and night the building is under guard by thewatchmen, distributed in three watches. Scrubbing andcleaning of the floors and rooms is done within about twohours every morning before the opening of the Library.The watch attends to carpentry and painting, repairs of thebuilding and furniture, heavy moving and handling, and thecare of the building proper. 352
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The Building and Grounds. 353 Engineer.—The engineer division includes a chief and Engineer.4 assistant engineers, an electrician and 1 assistant, 9 fire-men, 3 mechanics, 6 skilled laborers, and 2 elevator con-ductors. It has charge of the heating and ventilation,lighting, operation of all machinery, and the repairs ofroofs, plumbing, piping, and other metal work. The building is 470 feet in length by 340 feet in width,covering nearly 3^ acres of ground, with 4 inner courts150 by 75 to 100 feet. It has 32,600 square feet, or nearly8 acres of floor space. The magnitude of the building, especially as to areacovered, not only required a special design of heating appa-ratus, but indicated a need of facilities for communicationbetween all parts of the building and the transmission ofbooks between shelves and Reading Room superior to thoseever before required in libraries. It was also apparent thata safe and rapid service of similar character should be pro-vided between the library and t

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