Civic Leaders Form to Press Library Fight Architect's Perspective Indicates PWA Funds Would Be Well Spent Support of the plan for construc-J- tion of a new Brooklyn Central Library Is the aim of a special committee named by Edwin L. Garvin, former United States District Judge and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public library. Civic and educational leaders of the borough comprise the committee as announced by Judge Garvin last night after completion of the architect's plans for the new building. The library trustees, through Judge Garvin, last week petitioned Secretary of the Interior Ickes for early action on the request for approval of the new library as a PWA project. The architects plans, for a building of the modern, scientific open design, have been forwarded to Washington.
Inrereoll Active Barker As a result of active support of the plan by Borough President Ray mond V. Ingersoll, the Board of Estimate recently approved the enterprise and submitted the new library plan for Inclusion among the Brooklyn projects for which Federal grants are being made. Serving on the special Central library Committee are Dr. Roscoe C. E.
Brown, vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library and professor of Journalism at Columbia University, who has accepted the chairmanship of the committee: Francis J. Sullivan and Edward W. McMahon, prominent attorneys; Dr. John H. Denbigh, principal of the Packer Pollegiate Institute and chairman of the governing committee of the Department of Education of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; William E.
Eaton of the New Vork Telephone Company, and Mrs. William Pitman Earle a member of the Mayor Charter Revision Committee and executive secretary of the Women's City Club. The new preliminary design for the Brooklyn Central Library was prepared by Alfred Morton Githens and Francis Keally. associate architects of 101 Park Manhattan. Dana Plan Followed Judge Garvin announced that Brooklyn would be the sixth city to have a city library building n-atructed on the modern open plan.
Other cities with libraries so constructed are Springfield, Wilmington, Highland Park, Somervllle, and Baltimore. The late Edward L. Tilton of New York designed the first library building to follow this plan, a plan originally advocated by the late John Cotton Dana, the famous librarian of the Newark Public Library, who was one of the most Car-seeing men in the development of the library in its service to the public. The "open plan." Judge Garvin pointed out. has three distinguishing characteristics; The main floor with desk, catalog, reading rooms and shelving as far as practical is one great open space like a banking room or even a department store: this open space is directly accessible lrom the street, eliminating many stairs to climb.
Under this open Bpace is the bookstack. The trustees have been careful to plan that every part of the building open to public use should be accessible without climbing stairs, so that an invalid in a wheel chair can get from the street to any collection or exhibition that he may wish to visit. Will Be Fan-Shaped The projected new library building Is fan-shaped in plan, thus fitting the triangular shaped site originally selected for the Central Library Building some 30 years ago on the Section, of the Grand Army Plaza between Eastern Parkway and Flat-bush Ave. adjacent to the reservoir. Judge Garvin stressed the fact in his announcement that the new design, along the most improved and practical lines, would save hundreds of thousands of dollars over plans made when the site first was selected.
As described by the architects, the front elevation of the building, facing the Grand Army Plaza, is concave in conception, fitting in with the oval form of the Plaza, and. at the same time, harmonizing with the existing character of the adjoining buildings. Entrance From Terrace The main entrance of the library Is reached from a terrace, elevated a few steps above the level of Flat-bush on one side, and Eastern Parkway on the other. Suitable landscaping will provide a proper setting, and a granite pavement, at the main entrance is to bp incised to represent a map of the Borough Of Brooklyn, showing the location cf the various branch libraries. The Interior of the building has been conceived to meet all the modern functional needs for convenient and economical library operation, end Is based on the practical science of library planning, which has advanced so rapidly during the last lew years.
This modern approach is evident the moment one passes the entrance door Into the central hall. Standing In the center of this imposing room, which rises 50 fpet, the entire operation of the library can be observed. Perhaps the arrangement of this Interior can best be visualized by a picture of an ordinary lady's fan. The handle or knob of the fan would represent the entrance lobby of the library, and Just as the ribs spread out from the handle of a fan, Just so do the reading rooms housing the books radiate from the central hall. Main Room Commands AH Above the entrance to each of these rooms, an Illuminated guide, easily read, notes the type of books to be found within, Tims, for example, from a position in the center cf the main room, ca 1 be seen every reading room radiating from it.
and, Jor Instance, should a book on philosophy be desired, such a designation would bt clearly shown How New Boro Library Would Look i A. I 1r "I I i-f -f i I -W, ltifrf MtWItl i IS 1 MMILMlll "1, I Friend Elected Association Head In Prospect Park Hathaway Is Named Vice President and Horace M. Snyder as Secretary The modern open type of scientific design is exemplified in this architect's perspective of the proposed new Brooklyn Central Library for which PWA approval is being sought. The sketch was prepared by Alfred Morton Githens and Francis Keally, associate architects. above the correct room.
So that, with a heretofore unknown simplicity of direction and with the absolute minimum of inconvenience or delay it is possible to reach one's goal. On the second floor, reached by an escalator, are reading rooms, identical in arrangement and loca-tidn to the ground floor, for engineering, finance, art, architecture, economics, philosophy, religion, education, sociology, documents, local history, the print room, the map room, foreign languages, and the music collection with several small soundproof rooms where scores may be tried out on the piano. All of the reading rooms face the outside, as there are no courts whatsoever. Thus every room has constant daylight and, as all the read ing rooms will face either the reservoir park to the southeast or the two adjacent streets, there will always be uninterrupted views. No Time Lost Hunting Without corridors to bewilder one.
and without waste space and with the elimination of the need for hunting for a particular reading room, the interior of the library as planned presents the simplest possible arrangement with a maximum degree of efficiency and utilization. The third floor Is planned to house the administration departments, the librarians' and trustees' rooms, a treasure room for rare books and manuscripts, as well as a large order anu cataloguing room. At the rear, overlooking park property to the south and east, a great open terrace can be used as an out door reading room In pleasant weather. The fourth floor Is planned to contain the social and lunch rooms for the library staff, with a small kitchen, a printing room and bindery, and the library school. Solves Many Problems "A new Central Library building," according to Judge Garvin, "will solve once and for all the problems the Brooklyn Public Library system has had to deal with for many years past In its effort to give adequate service in the face of dlscouragingly limited facilities.
"This situation has been aggravated since the depression and the coming of the 'new leisure' when heavier demands than ever before in the history of the Brooklyn Public Library have been placed upon At an executive ses-ion last night In the home of Albert J. Sterling, 144 Westminster Road, members of the Prospect Park South Association, elected officers for the coming year. The election marked the 36th annual meeting of the Association. At the close of the meeting reporters, who had been excluded, were Informed that the following had been elected: Walter W. Friend, president; George L.
Hathaway, vice president; Horace M. Snyder, secretary; Walter M. Gladding, treasurer, and George R. Holahan counsel. the system to meet the needs of a public with more time to spare and less money to spend on costlier diversions.
Brooklyn serving a community of practically 3,000,000 persons has central library facilities equal to those of a city of 250,000 population. Why a Campaign "The purpose of forming a special committee in the interest of the. new library project Is to arouse public opinion and to urge the acceptance of the project In Washington. Civic groups, social agencies, organized women's groups and men's club groups will be asked to express their opinions and to endorse the project. "This program will be carried out in the belief that the erection of tu.e Brooklyn Central Library is more worthwhile to this community than the spending of money on the many 'made' and ephemeral works that communities have been Induced to accept in the efort to stimulate building." -JlJ 'i ABRAHAM fir Svsw is FOR "LOXG MILEAGE" THIS TWICE-A-YEAR SALE ofiieer ALL-SILK (7) I ountess OMIFMiW STOCKINGS ''Sheer sell by the thousands at 79c all year round.
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