LIBRARIES. 1 —Y.
mediaeval and modern times.— (Concluded.)
Fig. 23. Plan of the Library of the Law School. (Scale of 0.001 per. m.) Ou
R great libraries have no cause to envy those of antiquity; the number of volumes which they contain is larger than that attributed to the greatest libraries that have perished. The [French] National Library contains about two and a half million pieces; and there is an increase of about fifty thousand each year. Even with the projected enlargement of the buildings, we can foresee that it will not be very long before they will be inadequate for the storage of the collection.
Instead of massing together all kinds of literary productions in one place, there is a tendency now to specialize collections;
Sorbonne, the library of the College of France, the libraries of the Law School, the School of Medicine, the ficole des Beaux- Arts, the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Metiers and the Conservatory of Music, the libraries and archives of the various
Fig. 24. View of the Law School Library.
ministries, the libraries of the Senate, at the Luxembourg, and of the Chamber of Deputies, the library of the City of Paris re-established at the Hotel Carnavalet, etc.
The library of the Law School deserves special notice on account of the ingenious disposition of its plan (Figures 23, 24,
Fig. 25. Section of the Law School Library.
Paris is not behind hand in this regard ; outside of the National Library there are several more or less strictly special public libraries such as, the library of the Arsenal, the Saint-Genevieve,2 the Mazarin Library at the Institute, the library of the
1 From the French of Emile Camut, in Planat’s Encyclophlle de l’Architecture et tie la Construction. Continued from No. 827, page 64.
2 See the plan of this library in Vol. XXVII, No. 737, page 87.
25). It was designed by M. Lheureux, and comprises a square hall flanked by two hemicycles, and a rectangular hall perpendicular to the first. In niches at the angles of the square hall are winding iron stairways, which lead to the tiers of galleries containing the cases of books, These cases run along the walls of the second hall,, and are also reached by a turret staircase in the rear of the room. The iron framed ceilings are very
Fig. 27. Plan of the Museum-Library at Grenoble.
1. Concierge. 2. Vestibule.
3. Sculptures. 4. Paintings. 5. Library.
6. Librarians.
7. Anteroom.
8. Heading-room. 9. Book Shelves.
10. Dauphin’s Library. 11. Collection of copies.
mediaeval and modern times.— (Concluded.)
Fig. 23. Plan of the Library of the Law School. (Scale of 0.001 per. m.) Ou
R great libraries have no cause to envy those of antiquity; the number of volumes which they contain is larger than that attributed to the greatest libraries that have perished. The [French] National Library contains about two and a half million pieces; and there is an increase of about fifty thousand each year. Even with the projected enlargement of the buildings, we can foresee that it will not be very long before they will be inadequate for the storage of the collection.
Instead of massing together all kinds of literary productions in one place, there is a tendency now to specialize collections;
Sorbonne, the library of the College of France, the libraries of the Law School, the School of Medicine, the ficole des Beaux- Arts, the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Metiers and the Conservatory of Music, the libraries and archives of the various
Fig. 24. View of the Law School Library.
ministries, the libraries of the Senate, at the Luxembourg, and of the Chamber of Deputies, the library of the City of Paris re-established at the Hotel Carnavalet, etc.
The library of the Law School deserves special notice on account of the ingenious disposition of its plan (Figures 23, 24,
Fig. 25. Section of the Law School Library.
Paris is not behind hand in this regard ; outside of the National Library there are several more or less strictly special public libraries such as, the library of the Arsenal, the Saint-Genevieve,2 the Mazarin Library at the Institute, the library of the
1 From the French of Emile Camut, in Planat’s Encyclophlle de l’Architecture et tie la Construction. Continued from No. 827, page 64.
2 See the plan of this library in Vol. XXVII, No. 737, page 87.
25). It was designed by M. Lheureux, and comprises a square hall flanked by two hemicycles, and a rectangular hall perpendicular to the first. In niches at the angles of the square hall are winding iron stairways, which lead to the tiers of galleries containing the cases of books, These cases run along the walls of the second hall,, and are also reached by a turret staircase in the rear of the room. The iron framed ceilings are very
Fig. 27. Plan of the Museum-Library at Grenoble.
1. Concierge. 2. Vestibule.
3. Sculptures. 4. Paintings. 5. Library.
6. Librarians.
7. Anteroom.
8. Heading-room. 9. Book Shelves.
10. Dauphin’s Library. 11. Collection of copies.