Читать книгу How to plan a library building for library work онлайн

41 страница из 72

Old buildings bought: Westbury cost $100. Boxford ” 360. Scituate ” 700. Mendon ” 1,000. West Tisbury ” 1,063. New wooden buildings: Marston’s Mills ” 425. Freetown ” 1,500. Provincetown ” 3,000. North Scituate ” 3,000. Southwick ” 3,000. New brick buildings: Bernardiston ” 2,000. Buckland ” 2,500. Templeton ” 2,500.

with several others costing less than $5,000 and many costing $10,000 or less. Of some of these, exterior views are given in the report. I should much like to see interior views, floor plans, full statistics and comments of local librarians.

In A. L. A. Library Tract No. 4 I said, and still think, that—

“A rough, unpainted, cellarless, one-room wooden building could be put together for say $250, and can be fitted up and made comfortable in all weathers for as much more.

“From $1,000 to $2,500 will pay for a tasteful wooden building amply sufficient for a library of not over 5,000 volumes.

“$2,500 to $5,000 will erect a similar building, to hold 10,000 volumes or more.

“From $10,000 up will provide for a brick building, and from $15,000 up a stone building for growing libraries of 15,000 volumes or more, with the varied functions that such a collection implies.”