reading room

The pandemic closed the reading room, once open five days a week, four hours a day.

But then there is that library, with the ambience of a Victorian Era reading room.

And even that scene depends on a magnificent overhead pullback, accentuating the symbolic rings within rings of the building’s historic reading room, to make it interesting.

While often the source of Dan Brown -esque conspiracies, it functions much as any national or private archive: Researchers request permission to visit and then request specific documents to review in dedicated reading rooms.

While users will be able to search for items, checking availability and ordering them to use in the reading rooms will be different.