Item is a presentation board with two black-and-white mounted photographs of 4B revision models of the Killam Library building set in the present (ca. 1968) campus setting and in a future campus setting, which features a cluster of conceptualized buildings.
Item consists of a typescript copy of a press release prepared by Carleton Stanley and submitted to all Halifax newspapers, about a notable gift of books inscribed by Queen Victoria by Mr. George Matthew Adams.
Item consists of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley, submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star in October 1931, about a gift of books from Francis McLennan to the Library at Dalhousie University. Includes correspondence.
Item is a proof sheet with photographs taken in the Killam Memorial Library. The photographs show shelves of books, students working at tables in the stacks, and a book on a display stand.
Item consists of three proof sheets with 76 photographs taken in the Killam Memorial Library. The photographs are interior shots of various rooms in the library. One prof sheet also includes photographs of an unidentified baby. Some photographs have been cut out from the proof sheets and are not included.
Item consists of proof sheets with photographs taken in the Killam Memorial Library. The photographs show a desktop computer, the circulation desk, the sciences services office, stacks, and a reading room.
File comprises a set of plans for the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of the Killam Library, mounted on presentation board with acetate overlays indicating space usages by reference to an unknown key-plan that includes numbers 1-11.
Item is a plan showing a third floor layout of the Killam Library. The base plan includes the perimeter carrel seating and built-in seminar and office rooms; strips of paper illustrating the stack arrangement have been taped to this surface, and the plan is annotated by hand with the letters A, B, G and R.
File contains 2 pages of blackline prints of working designs for a display unit and book cases for the planned Kipling Room in the Killam Library. The drawings include elevations and section details, are stamped "preliminary," numbered S-8 and S-8, and dated 31 March 1969. The Kipling Room ended up remaining in the O.E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library; it is possible that these furniture plans were used instead for the Morse Room, which was located behind the MacMechan Auditorium.
File contains 11 pages of blueline prints of hand-drawn working designs for Killam Library furnishings, labelled F-100 though F-110, which include initial and revised plans (elevations and section drawings) for: cataloguer and bibliographer's work units; card catalogue units; consultation tables; newspaper storage units; display cases; atlas stands; file tubs; and dictionary stands. Annotations with dates include revisions based on requests by librarians.