Public libraries. A treatise on their design, construction and fittings, with a chapter on the principles of planning, and a summary of the law (1907)
Champneys, Amian Lister · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 102
PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 82 tables or desks are used for writing as well as for reading, it is im- portant that the strongest light should come from the left. Gener- ally it is quite sufficient if half the seats at each table give this advantage, and therefore double tables with readers seated on each… … 59- desks or tables with seats on one side only are preferred (Fig. 60). When such are used in a room lighted from both sides, the desks in each half of the room may face the reverse way to those in the other, so that each set of tables may get the strongest light from the left. In very large…
Library architecture · Library fittings and supplies
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