University of Virginia Library

Library Expansion

A consulting librarian will visit the
University next week to begin a survey
intended to result in guidelines for the future
expansion of the University's library facilities.

Keyes D. Metcalf, librarian emeritus at
Harvard University, will begin his three-day
preliminary survey tomorrow.

Mr. Metcalf, widely noted for his work in
the field, has served as consultant during the
past decade to libraries at such institutions as
Cornell, Duke, Tulane, and Notre Dame
universities and to the Australian National
Library.

During his visit he will be conferring with
library and planning department officials at the
University about expansion of facilities in ways
that would make them efficient and
economically sound, announced University
librarian Ray W. Frantz Jr.

Mr. Metcalf will be giving attention during
his initial visit to the proposed undergraduate
library, the proposed science and technology
information center and the proposed western
wing for Alderman Library. The University has
asked for funds for these projects in its capital
outlay request to the State.