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"To call elevator, hold the up or down button until the car comes. Once inside, you only need to press the desired floor button one. You do not need to hold it down."
Not mentioned is that the elevators don't wait more than about two seconds for people to get on before the doors close and the elevators now randomly stop at unrequested floors on the way to where you want to go.
The sign above the call button was the first iteration; the one beside it is the more nuanced explanation. At this rate there will be an article on Wikipedia about the Adams Building elevators. The fact that the second announcement was encapsulated in plastic makes me think that perhaps they anticipate this situation a bit longer than they let on.
Ovid, Les Metamorphoses d’Ovid — the first of Pablo Piccaso’s major illustrated books – from the collection of the Library of Congress
National Audiovisual Conservation Center. From 1969 to 1988, the facility was a high security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board. In 2007 it was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. For the Library of Congress, this is the first time a single site could store all 6.3 million pieces of the library's movie, television, and sound collection.