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Map 2.

Reading-room in a Copenhagen Public Library.

The libraries of the city are always procuring the best and newest books. 28,000 volumes averagely are bought per year for the district-libraries, and of many books and works 80 to 70 or even 100 copies are procured. The books are bought with proper regard paid to all branches of en­ lightenment and education and the libraries thus ofTer a rich material, old and new, for entertainm ent and infor­ mation, for professional im­ provement and self-applica­ tion, equally valuable to all classes, to men and women. The libraries are meant to be the university of the people and the home, where everybo­ dy may have his interests and his th irst of knowledge statisfied: the technician and

Ihe artist, the workingman and the mechanic, the s tu ­ dents and the businessmen, the housewives and the tr a ­ desmen of everv description. In 1923—24 '],727,000 volu­ mes were lent to 54,000 rea­ ders and the reading-rooms were visited by 414,400 per­ sons. The librarian s show wil­ lingly the libraries to to u ­ rists, wanting to inspect them. The University-Library is in Fiolstrrede, form ing the one side of the university square. I t was built in 1857 —61 by the architecht I. 1). Herholdt in N o rth -Italian sty ­ le. To the university-library belongs the large Classen-Li- brary and the famous Arne-

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