Description: Caption reads: "Miami University, Library Entrance, Oxford, Ohio, Butler County. 1936." The Alumni Library opened in April of 1910 and was funded by the Alumni Centennial Fund and the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the total amount of the $80,000 it cost to build. When the library opened, it featured a 70 ft. high rotunda, in addition to reading rooms and stacks. In 1924, an east wing was added to the building, which offered a main reference and reading room. A west wing was added to the building in 1952 in addition to the stacks that were added onto the building in 1930, 1949, and 1958. The Alumni Library was the main library of the university until the King Library was constructed in 1972. Miami University is one of the oldest and best-known universities in the State of Ohio. Miami University was founded in 1809. Although chartered in 1809, Miami University did not open its doors to students until 1823. It became known as the "Yale of the West." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F02_002_001
Subjects: Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)--History; Architecture--Ohio; Academic libraries--Ohio; College buildings
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the stacks in the Ohio State University Library, Columbus, in 1941. Three men are visible in the image. One of them is standing on a lower level; the two other men are standing on the semi-transparent floor above him. When OSU (then the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College) was established in 1873, its library was housed in University Hall. In 1893 it was moved to Orton Hall. Ground was broken for a new Ohio State University Library facility in December 1910. The library opened to the University community in January 1913. Since 1951 the central library's official name has been William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, in honor of the University's fifth president. It has been renovated or expanded three times: in 1951, 1977, and 2007-2009. It is the central research library in the University's system, which includes 55 individual libraries and collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06195
Subjects: Libraries--Ohio--History; Academic libraries--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio); Ohio State University. Libraries
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a male patron posed on the top of a ladder with an open book in the Ohio State University library, taken by employees of the Works Progress Administration in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02858
Subjects: Ohio State University. Libraries; Books; Academic libraries--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Zimmerman Library." This is a photograph of Zimmerman Library on the Wittenberg College campus in Springfield, Ohio. The building was constructed in 1891 as the university's main library. In 1957, when Weaver Chapel and Thomas Library were completed, Zimmerman was no longer needed as a library and was reconstructed to suit other disciplines. Today, Zimmerman Hall houses the department of psychology at Wittenberg College. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F06_024_001
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; Academic libraries; Wittenberg University--History; Universities and colleges; Wittenberg College--Buildings; Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)