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Show Library Joins Space Race By RICHARD WATERS Chronicle Staff Writer For the frantic student who has tired of waiting in line to get into the main hall of Orson Spencer, or has tired of watching the fish and freshmen in the Union Building, there is a new diversion crowd the Library. THIS FASCINATING game may be played during school days from 7:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. Required is one brief-case or purse containing the morning's lunch and yesterday's apple. But of prime importance are books the more the better. On top of the book pile must be placed a thick book with an unusual title. "Matriology" is presently the leader. For the more studious, the Thomas Library offers a staggering array of reference rooms, reading rooms, reserve book rooms, and on the third floor are "experimental" audio-visual rooms. UPON ENTERING, the library sounds like a large "Metropolitan newspaper" in action. But the mild-mannered reporters at" the typewriters are students making use of the rental typewriters to get out late themes. The main reading room is on the second floor. It is filled with large tables surrounded with large chairs. But gone are the days when the student could commandeer an entire table to himself. Today it is so crowded and the noise of papers being turned, chairs scraped and pencils dropper, that all serious study is impossible. Two girls where overheard saying as they left: "I came to study, but couldn't because there is too much noise." NOISE IS NOT the only handicap. In the Medical Library there are several tables that say they are reserved for medical students only. But one wonders how many med. students have the time to make the 15-minute drive down from the Med School to look up the finer points of a Histerectomy operation. But greatest of all wonders are the stacks. This is the inner sanctum of the Library. Here is where the books are. After leaving all books at the entrance, one is treated to a maze of browsing students, sleeping rushee's, and intense graduate students working at their alcoves. (Continued on Page 2) . ty Library Noisy, Busy Place (Continued from Page But beware of remove , unwanted book. Large signs ? test that one may not rL them. But the olLr deSft. the library skirts this by l!i to level four (sub-baffl where a sign proudly says- V shelving Area." Nearby L ponderous array of bound hi with the simple title: "20th Cp tury." Upon such a serious not the student is only too glaH return to the light of day J? ing on the way, two beWlL freshmen, one saying to Z other: "It's somewhere W here, I know, I've seen a m, 1 of the place." mJt i |