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| The new Library building (now North Hatcher) was dedicated on January 7. The final cost for construction was $645,000, about 25 cents per cubic foot. The low cost was in part due to architect Albert Kahn's adaptation of architectural techniques used primarily in factory construction. The building was 177 feet long, 200 feet wide, four stories high and had an estimated capacity of 1,000 readers and 1,000,000 volumes. R.R. Bowker, editor of Library Journal, gave the principal address at the dedication. An excerpt from his speech: |
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"We
think of research as rather a matter high in the air, but there is, after
all, nothing more practical; and today the organization of the American
library system is thoroughly adapted to this idea of research".[7]
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