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No 72 Spring 2003

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Schematic plan for the Reading Room, showing subject categories and Dewey numbers. This seems to be a copy or version of the drawing with which Armstrong travelled overseas, and it illustrates the perceived nexus between the new Dewey system and modern centralised planning, both favoured by Armstrong, as opposed to the traditional library organisation and rectangular plan, both favoured by Miller. Bates Smart & McCutcheon Collection, University of Melbourne Archives.

Schematic plan for the Reading Room, showing subject categories and Dewey numbers. This seems to be a copy or version of the drawing with which Armstrong travelled overseas, and it illustrates the perceived nexus between the new Dewey system and modern centralised planning, both favoured by Armstrong, as opposed to the traditional library organisation and rectangular plan, both favoured by Miller. Bates Smart & McCutcheon Collection, University of Melbourne Archives.

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