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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 ]
The collection was started by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, a Minnesota-born archivist, in the 1950s, and donated to the University of Minnesota Libraries in the early 200s when the collection grew large enough to be a fire hazard in his home. [6] Selected items from the collection and timelines are frequently assembled and displayed worldwide.
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] Planning for a major rehabilitation of Walter Library began in the early 1990s. Work began in 1999 and continued until 2002.
One Minnesota resident, it seems, took that time – and then some. ... “This has proven again to us that libraries are as interesting and beloved now just as much as they were 100 years ago.” ...
Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota. The library was founded at the University of Minnesota in 1953 and was located first in Walter Library. It moved to the newly constructed Wilson Library in 1968. In March 2018, the Bell moved again to its current location in the university's Elmer L. Andersen Library building.
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]
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Minnesota provides detailed information on Carnegie libraries in Minnesota, United States, where 65 public libraries were built from 57 [1] grants (totaling $969,375) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1918.
The Hennepin County Library, which serves Hennepin County, Minnesota, including the city of Minneapolis, consists of 41 branches in 24 cities and towns. [1] Of these, 15 are in Minneapolis; collectively they made up the Minneapolis Public Library until they were absorbed by the Hennepin system in the merger. [2]