Library of 25,000 books planned at MP facililty

A technical library of 25,000 volumes is planned for the U.S. Geological Survey western headquarters in Menlo Park, David Gallagher, geologist in charge said today.

The library will be made available to Stanford faculty and students, and to anyone else who is interested. Gallagher said the Survey’s librarian, Miss Helen Coffin, will work with the Stanford geology library on book purchases.

Expensive or seldom-used volumes will be purchased by one or the other, he explained, and used by both groups. The Survey’s present library of about 5,000 books is still at the old Mint building in San Francisco, but is scheduled to be moved next week.

Gallagher said the library is the only remaining section of the Survey’s San Francisco offices still in the city.

About three fourths of the personnel which will be based here have now moved in. Gallagher said men are coming in from offices all over the West. Palo Alto Times January 9, 1954

Palo Alto Times
January 9, 1954

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