• THE B.M. READING ROOM SIR, —Apropos Janus's plea for reopening
the British Museum or some part of it, may I put in a special word for students in the reading room? I have recently been granted a ticket to carry on research and labour in the North Library alongside Polish officers, American enlisted men, and more familiar, figures of pre-war days. But the North Library is terribly crowded and one is lucky to procure a seat and an inkpot. It is sid,to pass through the famous but empty Round Room crowded with the ghosts of yesteryear. Surely now that soldiers up to the 17 and 18 groups are in the process of being released and become available for fresh employment the labour problem is not insoluble? Cannot the authorities now plan and announce a date for reopening the Round Room, thus granting a boon to researchers and students who can find there precious books obtaiable nowhere else in London? Such an announcement would be a tribute not only to the public enterprise of the Director but a triumph
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