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The Grainger Engineering Library was dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the University of Illinois Foundation, October 14, 1994. The proceedings, entitled a "Gateway to a New Era", established the largest engineering library in the country, with over 92,000 square feet (8,500 m 2 ) holding more than 300,000 volumes. [ 4 ]
The Bardeen Quad is home to the Grainger Engineering Library, the largest engineering library in the world with over 260,000 physical volumes and a substantial electronic repository. The building costs nearly $30 million and has 135,000 square feet (13,000 m²) of floor space.
Panorama of the Bardeen Quad (left to right: MEL, MSEB, Engineering Hall, Everitt Lab, Talbot Lab, Grainger Library. The Bardeen Quadrangle, named for John Bardeen, is the central part of the Engineering Campus and home to most of the undergraduate facilities. As such, it is often known as the Engineering Quadrangle.
Communications Library [98] Engineering (Grainger) Library [99] Health Sciences Library [100] History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library [101] Illinois Fire Service Institute Library [102] Illinois History and Lincoln Collections [103] International and Area Studies Library [104] Law Library [105] Literatures and Languages Library [106] Map ...
Engineering Hall was designed by UIUC graduate student George Bullard. The contractor responsible for the construction was Yeager & Schultz. The 63,800-square-foot (5,930 m 2 ) building cost $162,278.40 to construct and featured an interior richly appointed with oak and a ceiling paneled in Washington fir.
Established as one of 37 public land-grant institutions established after the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding ...
University of Illinois College of Education; Grainger College of Engineering; Engineering Campus (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Engineering Hall, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; English Building, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois Experimental Dairy Farm Historic District
When the campus closed, its library's 25,000 volumes became the core collection of a new Undergraduate Library at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Originally housed in rooms 123 and 101 in the Main Library, the facility outgrew its space by 1963. A new, separate building for the Undergraduate Library was completed 1969. [7]