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The University of Minnesota Libraries is the library system of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, operating at 12 facilities in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul. It has over 8 million volumes and 119,000 serial titles that are collected, maintained and made accessible. [ 1 ]
Designed by Minnesota State Architect Clarence H. Johnston, the building served as the university's primary library for much of the twentieth century. The library was named in honor of Frank Keller Walter in 1959. Walter, who had participated in the planning of the library, was the University of Minnesota Librarian from 1921 to 1943. [2]
The James Ford Bell Library is a special collection of the University of Minnesota Libraries located on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. It is named for its first donor and patron James Ford Bell, founder of the General Mills Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The collection consists of some 40,000 rare books, maps ...
Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-540-5. Wezeman, Frederick (1956). The Public Libraries of Minneapolis and Hennepin County: Survey of Factors Affecting their Future Relations. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Library School. OCLC 869185229.
Of Minnesota's 66 original Carnegie libraries, 48 are still standing. 25 continue to house public libraries while others have been adapted into art centers or office space. Of the 18 lost libraries, one burned down and the rest were demolished, often because they were unworkably deficient in handicap accessibility.
Minitex was created as a pilot project, initially funded in 1968 through a grant from the Louis and Maude Hill Foundation and state and federal grant funds from the Minnesota State Department of Education. [2] Today the system is a joint effort of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries. [3]
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The basement at one time contained a photography lab and offices for the Gopher yearbook, the Ski-U-Mah humor magazine, the Literacy Review, and the Minnesota Daily. [40] The basement classrooms lacked walls, however, which students often found distracting, so proper separation was constructed during a 2023 renovation.