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Yale University Library Gazette Special Issue On The Sterling Memorial Library, Volume V, Number 4 (April 1931), Yale University Library Apr 1931

Yale University Library Gazette Special Issue On The Sterling Memorial Library, Volume V, Number 4 (April 1931), Yale University Library

Publications on Yale History

The essence of a library is the bookstack, tier upon tier of self-supporting shelves with long slits of windows lighting narrow aisles. In the evolution of the modern library, it has become almost a matter of course to treat this structure as something to be subordinated in the exterior design. Not infrequently it becomes the rear facade, obscured behind a screen of monumental rooms. In the design of the Sterling Memorial Library, one of the first principles was the placing of the stack in the most accessible and important position on the site and its direct expression as the dominating …


College Tops Hill Where Old Fort Once Stood, Mattie Mclean Jan 1931

College Tops Hill Where Old Fort Once Stood, Mattie Mclean

WKU Archives Records

Supplement to the Park City Daily News promoting Western Kentucky University through the announcement of the completion of the Physical Education Building in 1931 which became Helm Library in 1965. Includes articles: Captain Brinton Davis Now Known as Hill Builder, Moore Brothers Completed Work Here with Ease, Physical Ed Building One of Prettiest, Mills Partitions Used in Physical Education Hall, Local Companies Sold Materials in New Building and New Building is Fitted with Safe Stairway Treads.


Ua1b1/7 Physical Education Building Dedication, Western Kentucky University Jan 1931

Ua1b1/7 Physical Education Building Dedication, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Dedication program for the WKU Health & Physical Education Building which is now the Helm-Cravens Library building. The building was designed by Brinton Davis and cost $250,000 to build. The gymnasium could hold up to 5,000 people for which purpose it was used until the completion of Diddle Arena in 1963.