16 ARRANGEMENTS OF NEW READING-ROOM. 



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

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

 When readers have filled up their 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 I 

 printed books or manuscripts from the shelves of the libra- 

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

 brovight 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 purpose within the superin- j 

 tendent's enclosure, and retained until the books they 

 respectively describe have been retm-ned by the readers, 

 when the tickets are given up. 



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

 library of reference for the use of the readers, comprising 

 most of the standard works on the various branches of 

 learning, and an extensive collection of dictionaries of all 

 languages, biographical works, encyclopaedias, parliamentaiy 

 histories, top(Tgraphical 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 tiie 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 

 ticket of admission. 



LON'DOX : PETNTED BY WILLIAJt CLOTTES AKD SOKS, STAMFORD STREET, 

 .VXD CHARTXG CROSS 



