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Working drawings of furnishings for Killam Library

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.

Working drawings of central display unit and book display case for the proposed Kipling Room in the Killam Library

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.

Vederala's notebook

Item is a sixteenth century ola, or palm leaf manuscript. The pages are held together with a cord, silver medallion, and lacquered wood covers painted with line drawings. The manuscript is part of "The Casey A. Wood Medical Collection of Sinhalese Materia Medica" (item number 225).

Preliminary floor plans for a library at Dalhousie University

File contains 3 pages of blueline prints of floor plans for a library at Dalhousie University, drawn by C.D. Davison & Company, the architectural firm that designed Dalhousie's Student Union Building in 1967. Undated and stamped "preliminary," the plans indicate a library with three floors. The drawings for floors 2 and 3 are annotated with potential seating and/or stack capacity for social sciences, humanities, rare books, graduate students, research and audio visual users, as well as conceptual drawings of study carrels and audio visual booths.

Photograph of the science reference desk at the Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University

Item is a photograph of Fred Kennedy, Science Librarian, working at the Science Reference Desk located in the McNab Reading Room on the second floor of the Killam Memorial Library. Behind the desk are computer workstations with access to the research databases (MLA, Business Online, etc.) to the right are the Current Unbound Journals.

Photograph of the science reference desk at the Killam Memorial Library, Dalhousie University

Item is a photograph of Fred Kennedy, Science Librarian, working at the Science Reference Desk located in the McNab Reading Room on the second floor of the Killam Memorial Library. Behind the desk are computer workstations with access to the research databases (MLA, Business Online, etc.) to the right are the Current Unbound Journals.
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