The OLD Library-before 1950
Although building construction on the McNichols campus started in 1925, it would be a few more years before the library had its own building. A library building was always part of the original plan for the campus, but the advent of a world-wide economic depression put those plans on hold. The actual groundbreaking for the library would not take place until 1949. Until the completion of the “new” library in 1950, all the library services were housed on the third floor of the engineering building. In the archives are pictures of what the library looked like when it was in the engineering building. It is hard to tell from these pictures how much space was available, but it does not look like it had much room for books AND places for students to study.
