Construction of a new building to house the present Peabody Museum anthropology library's 105,000 books and pamphlets is scheduled to begin in early May.

The new building, the Tozzer Library, will be built at 11 Divinity Ave. between the Peabody Museum and the University Herbarium.

Two donors contributed the $1.6 million needed to build the library, which is scheduled to be completed in June 1974.

The Peabody Museum library contains the largest collection of written material on anthropology in the U.S. "The present space is not adequate," Stephen Williams, director of the Peabody Museum, said yesterday.

Sunken Garden

"The building is planned to fit into its surroundings," Williams said. "Land-scaping, including a sunken garden, a terrace and more trees, will improve the quadrangle where the building will be located."

A student-Faculty committee helped formulate the design of the building in cooperation with Johnson and Hotvedt and Associates, an architectural firm which has worked on other museums.

The Tozzer library will be a three-story brick building. A larger building was originally planned to contain space for the ethnological research collection along with the library. However, fund-raising drives failed to raise enough money to construct the larger building, Williams said.