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Simple Solution In Library MoveMARIETTA, Ohio (AP) - Problem: How to move 120,000 books and hundreds of magazines from an old library in a new one, Marietta College faced up to it with all the intellectual ingenuity expected of an institution of higher learning.The answer arrived at by librarian Richard K. Gardner was surprisingly simple.Organize the school’s 1,500 students and faculty members into a giant book brigade, he said-one that could tote the 120,000 from the old library across a street into the new $865,000 Dawes Memorial Library,So that’s just what will happen Nov, 15,All of Marietta’s students will be excused from classes when the bell in Erwin Tower rings at 8 a.ro to muster them,The brigade will be divided intotwo groups, one for magazines and the other for books.They will move in a continuous line, in one door of the old building, pick up books, out another ■ door, cross the street into the new library, deposit books, out another door, and back to the old library for another trip.Each boy and girl will be limited to carrying a stack of books about 12 inches high, Gardner said, adding; If the majority of the students turn out, each person will have to make only about 11 trips.The librarian figures the majority of the books can be moved.by noon, “We will finish up in the afternoon, straighten things out that evening, and be open for business the next morning, he Sbid, All who work on the project will be compensated—a free lunch on the college,
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Mon, Nov 06, 1961
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