Assistant Named for Periodical Room

Beginning next fall, a trained assistant will be on duty in the Widener Library periodical room ready to assist students in their reference work, Library officials said yesterday.

At the same time librarians announced that the periodical room and the adjoining document room would be reorganized during the summer so as to make space for all of the current periodicals. Some of the less frequently used volumes in the document room will be moved and "dead space" in the document stacks will be taken up, it was explained, so that even those current magazines which are now filed away in the stacks can be kept in the periodical room.

The appointment of a reference assistant in charge of periodicals and the changes in the rooms this summer will make all periodicals readily accessible to students, library officials said.