seven floors of stacks

To get a book, you fill in a retrieval slip and take a number. It makes up to 20 main for the request to zip down a pipe, and for a pager to pull your item and put on a conveyor belt to be delivered up to the reading room. But first must have a readers' ticket.

Reading Room

If you have a publisher's contract or you are doing graduate studies, you can leave your books at your special spot in one of the smaller reading rooms and come back day after day.

Cutaway image showing the stacks