Caption reads: "A typical workroom. These areas located on each floor provide an efficient staff working space with good control of the entire floor. Partitioning at the front of the room is of a semi-permanent variety increasing flexibility of the area." The set of three cabinets in the foreground are Cardex files, which held the index to the library's periodicals. At right, a librarian pushes a cartload of books into the dumbwaiter. This space was home to the Research Center workroom as of 2009. Photograph by Ben Newby.