The library is expanding at the moment but it is not displacing other occupants of the building fast enough with the result that it is bursting at the seams. The periodicals section will simply have to have extra shelving space. The periodicals collection shelving ratio will be in excess of 100% by the end of 1975. It is therefore clear that it is now that a decision must be made on extra space. Now the clasrooms RB104-109 were designed to fulfill this purpose. It is quite obvious therefore that these rooms should be given to the library at the end of the year and until the completion of the von Zedlitz towers these classrooms could be replaced by temporary prefabs after the Cotton building construction huts are removed. These prefabs would not need to accomodate as many people as the Rankine Brown classrooms do as most present classes are very much smaller than the number these rooms can accomodate

• Over the Christmas holidays the law library moved into the 6th floor of Rankine Brown simply because it had to move out of the shaky Hunter building but the Prof. Board decided in 1973 that 'it be reaffirmed that beginning with the completion of the Cotton stage 1 in 1974/1975 and concluding with the completion of the von Zedlitz tower, floors 1 and 6 of Rankine Brown will be handed over to the library'. Now without floor 6 the main book collection will have a shelving ratio in excess of 100% by the end of 1976. So the Prof. Board must be urged to honour its agreement by the beginning of 1977 even though the movement of the Law library was due to the unforseen Hunter problem. The Law faculty wants to be reunified somewhere else in a permanent building anyway.
• The staff club is located on floor 3 of the library building and uses up a sizeable portion of potential library space. The university council decided to have it removed to two houses adjacent the centre of the campus when these houses become vacant when von Zedlitz is up.
• To make the situation more serious, recently the library has become an official United Nations depository which necessitates the setting up of a documents room, where documents are kept before binding and shelving.
• The problems of the classrooms on floor 1 and the staff club on floor 3 are easily solved and as such should be quickly dealt with. But to prevent what the library committee describes as a crisis situation in 1978/79, longer term planning must immediately begin to either allocate space for a permanent Law library elsewhere or to provide for alternative accommodation for the Applied Maths Division which now occupies floor 7. Since the council has already committed itself to allowing the library expansion into other parts of the building before a crisis situation is met it must treat this problem as a primary concern and it must treat it as a separate issue from that of the long term building programme in order to deal with it before it is too late. It would be a shocking thing to have to resort to off-campus storage of books, for instance.