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Scope and Contents note From the Series: Sherman Lee guided the growth of the museum through the building of a new wing by Marcel Breuer that opened to the public in 1971. By 1978, however, it was apparent that the museum was in need of further expansion. The museum library, located above the galleries in the 1958 wing, had reached a space crisis of dire proportions. Built to hold approximately 80,000 volumes of books, the library had no room left to expand. Books were piled along the stack aisles and in the hallway, hampering...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Sherman Lee guided the growth of the museum through the building of a new wing by Marcel Breuer that opened to the public in 1971. By 1978, however, it was apparent that the museum was in need of further expansion. The museum library, located above the galleries in the 1958 wing, had reached a space crisis of dire proportions. Built to hold approximately 80,000 volumes of books, the library had no room left to expand. Books were piled along the stack aisles and in the hallway, hampering...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Sherman Lee guided the growth of the museum through the building of a new wing by Marcel Breuer that opened to the public in 1971. By 1978, however, it was apparent that the museum was in need of further expansion. The museum library, located above the galleries in the 1958 wing, had reached a space crisis of dire proportions. Built to hold approximately 80,000 volumes of books, the library had no room left to expand. Books were piled along the stack aisles and in the hallway, hampering...