16 ARRANGEMENTS OF NEW READING-ROOM. 



E, F, D show the openings leading from the North 

 Library and the King's Library to the New Reading-room. 

 When readers have filled up theu- tickets they hand them to 

 the attendants in the central enclosure, by 'whom they are 

 passed to other attendants, whose duty it is to fetch the 

 printed books or manuscripts from the shelves of the libra- 

 ries. Through these openings, D, E, and F, the books are 

 brought to the central enclosure, and thence conveyed by 

 the Reading-room attendants to the readers ; the readers' 

 tickets, filled up as above described, being then deposited in 

 boxes constructed for the piirpose within the superin- 

 tendent's enclosure, and retained until the books they 

 respectively describe have been returned by the readers, 

 when the tickets are given up. 



The book-presses imder the gallery are filled with a large 

 libraiy of reference for the use of the readers, comprising 

 most of the standard works on the vaiious branches of 

 learning, and an extensive collection of dictionaries of all 

 languages, biographical works, encyclopaedias, parliamentary 

 histories, topographical works, &c. &c. These books, 

 which are about 20,000 in number, the readers can consult 

 at pleasure without filling up tickets for them. 



On each side" of the passage from the Entrance Hall, 

 through which the readers enter, oflBcers will be placed, 

 charged with the duty of seeing that no persons pass to the 

 Reading-room who are not provided with the necessary 



LONDON : PEIKTKD BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STASIFOUD STKF.ET, 

 AND CHARING CROSS. 



