That might be the case Sparks, but I have often wondered if, although they needed to make more room for traffic in the centre, etc, it may just have been a case that they did it, simply because they could. It gave someone a chance to put his name to something. It is probablyopen to speculation, but I think it was a combination of both things. What would they have done today? I suspect leave the library as it was (and I thought it was lovely at the time) and use a sccondary building for some of the collection. Students use the library these days more than they seemed to in the late 60's early 70's - more students and more facilities perhaps. Whatever the reason, it was, to my mind, a big mistake, but there again, I am a bit of a dinosaur!