Libraries History — The College of Wooster

Milestones in the History of The College of Wooster Libraries

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1870	The University of Wooster opened with a small collection of donated books in a single room of Old Main Hall.
1875	A reading room was added.
1892	The library, now 15,000 donated volumes, expanded into the entire second floor of the new west wing of Old Main Hall.
1900	Phase 1 of the new University of Wooster Library building, donated by Henry Clay Frick, designed by Nimmons & Fellows of Chicago, and built by Winter and Ames of Wooster, replaced the library in Old Main (which burned the following year). It included a high-ceilinged reading room, classroom, and offices, with a 2-level self-supporting stack wing in the rear.
1906	Phase 2 of the University Library, designed by Evert Waid of New York and built by Winter and Ames of Wooster, extended the building to the east, roughly doubling its size.
1931	An upper story was added to the stack wing of the Library.
1962	The Andrews Library, funded with a principal gift from Mabel Shields Andrews, designed by Shafer, Flynn & Williams of Cleveland, and built by Freeman Construction Company of Wooster, replaced the old Library, “Frick Hall,” which was converted into an art museum and offices.
1966	Andrews Library joined the Federal Depository Library Program as a selective depository for United States government publications.
1971	Andrews Library became a charter member of the governing board of the Ohio College Library Center (later OCLC, Inc.: The Online Computer Library Center) for shared cataloging and interlibrary loan.
	Audiovisual services and microform collections were centralized in Andrews Library.

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