Patrons are reading at long tables in the Reference Room (currently the Science and Business Room), located on the second floor. The Reference Room contained nine long reading tables, each with ten Windsor chairs. Bookshelves six shelves high run along the walls and a card catalog is located behind the reference desk. A doorway at the end leads into the Technical Room (currently the Government Documents Room). Transcribed from back of photo: 'Reference Dept. Central Reference'.