Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY. CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING CHICAGO: ITS HISTORY AND ITS BUILDERS 297 tables for the users of finding; lists are also located here. On this floor, also, arethe administrative rooms of the Library. REFERENCE AND READING ROOMS The floor above is occupied by the Reference and Reading Rooms. The formerroom, one hundred and thirty-eight feet long, thirty-eight feet wide, and thirty feethigh, with accommodations for two hundred and twenty five readers, is situated onthe east front of the building,
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Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth . CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY. CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING CHICAGO: ITS HISTORY AND ITS BUILDERS 297 tables for the users of finding; lists are also located here. On this floor, also, arethe administrative rooms of the Library. REFERENCE AND READING ROOMS The floor above is occupied by the Reference and Reading Rooms. The formerroom, one hundred and thirty-eight feet long, thirty-eight feet wide, and thirty feethigh, with accommodations for two hundred and twenty five readers, is situated onthe east front of the building, and is directly over the book rooms, with which it isconnected by means of automatic electric lifts, thus insuring rapid service. It isreached from the south staircase by a long corridor, and adjoining it on the southare the public card catalogue room, the room for special students, and a three-storystack room for bound periodicals. Here the scheme of decoration is much lesselaborate than on the floor below, the only noticeable coloring being in the lowwainscoting and baseboards of beautif