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THE University Library, after occupying its old site for four hundred and sixty-four years, has now removed to a new building on a new site. The difficulties, not only of storage but also of the proper handling of the books in a medieval build ing, have long been recognised, and records of debates in the Senate House on what ought to be, or could be, done go well back into the last century. Many suggestions for alterations and hoped for improvements were made from time to time, but all with the view of remaining on the old site. Ideas for additional stories, for covering in the old courts, for excavating cellars underground were in turn suggested and debated, but without any definite move ever coming out of it all.
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F.-C., C. New University Buildings at Cambridge: The New University Library. Nature 134, 649–650 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134649a0
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