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crl-14011	Kaser, David	Twenty-Five Years of Academic Library Building Planning	1984	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6543	268	58	Proposed initially by architect and stack manufacturer Angus Snead Macdonald in the mid-1930s, the full application of the modular concept of library building plan- ning was delayed for more than a decade, in part by the usual forces of conserva- tism, but also by the depression and by World War Ir_l With the encouragement, however, of its first principal proponent, Ralph Ellsworth, director of libraries of the ·University of Iowa, modular planning was used increasingly in the years immedi- ately after the war, first at Hardin- Simmons College (1947) and then at Princeton (1948), North Dakota State (1950), and Iowa (1951) universities. Now library buildings were expected to serve two functions, one bibliothecal and the other symbolic.	cache/crl-14011.pdf	txt/crl-14011.txt