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Step 10. In the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, a library staff member retrieves the requested book from the dumbwaiter and hands it to patron
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Step 6. The book is placed in a box which will be transported to the Main Reading Room of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 5. The book is taken to a central station in the Bookstacks of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia where it will begin its automated journey on the conveyor system to the Main Reading Room
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Step 3. The call number of the book requested is received on the teletype receiver on the correct floor in the Bookstacks in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. A runner is dispatched to retrieve the book from its place on the shelf
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Step 4. The runner retrieves the book from the shelves takes it to the central station on that floor of the Bookstacks in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Step 1. The patron searches the card catalog in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia for the call number of the book which she is interested, in this case Edward Everett Hale's Franklin in France
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Step 2. After finding the call number in the card catalog for a book the patron wishes to borrow, she requests the book from the library staff member in the Main Reading Room in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Hallahan Catholic Girls High School students using the Periodical Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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West hallway, second floor in the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Bindery worker running an oversewing machine at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Aerial view of Logan Circle, the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway, and Art Museum, looking to the northwest, ca. 1929
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Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia rooftop terrace, April 1932
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Cyrus Adler, the president of the Board of Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia (left), presents the keys to the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia to Librarian John Ashhurst (right) as Clinton Rogers Woodruff
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Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, looking northeast across Fairmount Parkway at Logan Circle from 20th Street, on opening day, June 2, 1927
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Sorting books in the Periodical Room during the move into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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Moving books into the Children's Room in the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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Moving books into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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View of the completed Bookstacks prior to the movement of the library's collection to the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia
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Moving books into the new Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 1927
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Stone carvers from the John Donnelly Company completing Corinthian capitals at the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, ca. 1924-1925
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