Did you know that the E.H. Little Library is not the first building to house the college’s library collections?
In fact, there were three before it.
“Old Chambers”
The first physical space to house the book collections of the college, was in the Library Hall in “Old Chambers,” the building which burned in 1921 and was replaced with “New Chambers,” the building on campus today. The first building to be built on campus as a library was the Carnegie Library, completed in 1910.
Carnegie Library
In 1941, the second library building opened, the Hugh A. and Jane Grey Memorial Library.
Grey Library
And, our present library building, the E.H. Little Library, was completed in 1974.
E.H. Little Library
That doesn’t mean that the former library buildings are no longer here. Carnegie is now the Carnegie Guest House, and Grey became the student union for a time and is now the Sloan Music Center.
If you’re around, come by the library after the new year and see the display in the Rare Book Room with pictures of the libraries and some of the books from the original collections.
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