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Claude Peter Magrath (/ m ə ˈ ɡ r ɔː /, born April 23, 1933) is a higher education administrator who has served as provost or president at multiple American universities. Magrath was born on April 23, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York and received political science degrees as an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire and as a Ph.D. at ...
The system is the 17th largest academic library in North America [2] and the 22nd largest library in the United States. [3] While the system's primary mission is to serve faculty, staff and students, because the university is a public institution of higher education its libraries are also open to the public.
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The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England .
Magrath is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813–1893), last Confederate Governor of South Carolina; C. Peter Magrath (born 1933), interim president of West Virginia University; Cassandra Magrath (born 1981), Australian actress; Charles Alexander Magrath (1860–1949), surveyor of the Northwest ...
The Science Library contains materials in all science and engineering disciplines, as well as a map collection. The University Downtown Center Library and Information Commons supports the departments of social work, human development, public administration, and student affairs administration.
Opened 1910, it was not part of Carnegie's original grant to Pittsburgh but part of a later gift. It's the last library Carnegie built in the city of Pittsburgh and is much bigger than a typical branch building. It's the library featured in episodes of the PBS show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Includes 300-seat auditorium. Renovated 2004. 26
William Darlington was an attorney from Pittsburgh and spent much of his life collecting maps, books, magazines, and manuscripts. [1] [2] Some of these date back to the 1500s. The earliest maps of the New World are also part of the collection Devoted much of his 74 years to collecting some of the earliest printed maps of the New World.