| The Knight Library's Special
Collections and University Archives Reading Room was the "upperclassmen's
reading room" of the original Lawrence Ellis-designed library. |
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| Like most older reading rooms, it is daylit, a high-ceilinged
room with tall north-facing windows; a rough guess makes the ceiling perhaps
25 feet high, with the windows starting at perhaps six feet off the ground
and continuing upward for perhaps 18 feet. The windows are surrounded by
tall, deep bookshelves, which provide glare-reducing reveals. |
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| Some years ago, the room was restored, and two rows of hanging indirect
luminaires were installed, replacing what was apparently a different system
with three rows of hanging luminaires, one row in each channel of the coffered
ceiling; the original mounting points are still visible. |
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