Drummond    Henry Gurnee    1889    Our College Library    Nassau Literary Magazine 1888/06    44    123-130    

Decries falling circulation at the Library. Cause: that the library is not suitable for student use  (126-127)'We have not free access to the books during a number of hours each day, nor have we tables well lighted and suited for working.  If these defects were inherent in the library and could not be remedied, we should utter no word of complaint; but they are not.  All of the priviledges, or rather necessities, we have named are granted at the Columbia library, and all, we feel sure, may be extended to us at Princeton.  When this is done we shall have a library equal to that at Columbia for usefulness in practical arrangements, as it now is far superior in point of architectural beauty and system of cataloguing.' [Vinton's catalogue was pub in 1884.][On the issue of lost books] (127 ff) Remedies include shelf marks stamped to the spine; more time to work in the alcoves; less crowding of the shelves; putting the charge function at the entrance, rather than leave it at the central desk; [Repeated complaint about the 'brazen' nuisance -- the fence before the alcoves](130) 'But true progress does not always come from self-congratuation'