Baker post-renovation

Three views of the renovated Baker Library:

Dartmouth photo

The welcome desk above follows almost exactly the form of the earlier circulation desk, but with paneling depicted rather than attached. Now patrons enter the Berry addition through the librarians’ old passage to the stacks. Note the new colors for the library’s main hall, presumably based on historic colors.

Dartmouth photo

The reflection prevents this photo from showing that one of the display cases has been removed to make a window onto the passage leading back to Berry.

Dartmouth photo

As another local instance of outside becoming inside, an exterior wall of the original Baker stacks now lines the passage to Berry. VSBA installed a door here.

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