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The W. E. B. Du Bois Library holds resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences. At 28 stories and 286 feet 41⁄8 inches (roughly 88 m) tall, it is the third-tallest library in the world after the National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta at 414 feet (126 m) and Shanghai Library in China at 348 feet (106 m).
That building was renamed to the Harold B. Lee Library in 1974. [4] The library was significantly expanded in the 1990s, providing new individual and group study rooms and a special vault area for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library. In 2016, the library contained over 4.7 million books, 10.6 million total materials, and served over ...
Location. David Adamany Undergraduate Library is located at 5150 Anthony Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. Within the Wayne State University campus, it is situated at the center of Gullen Mall. Within Detroit, UGL is located within a couple miles from the three major freeways that run through the city; I-75, I-94 and the Lodge (M-10) .
The library is located inside the North York Centre twin-tower office/hotel/retail complex (5150 Yonge Street). 5150 Yonge Street is on the west side of Yonge Street (across the street from Empress Walk) and forms the north side of Mel Lastman Square. The library is adjacent North York Civic Centre, which until 1998 was the North York 's City Hall.
Irwin Library. The Irwin Library is one of the three libraries operated by Butler University, Indianapolis, United States. [1] Minoru Yamasaki was the lead architect, and constructed the library in the architectural style of New Formalism. [2] Construction of the library cost $2.25 million, of which $1.5 million was underwritten by the Irwin ...
Widener Library. The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, [2] is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
The James B. Hunt Jr. Library is the second main library of North Carolina State University (NCSU) and is located on the university's Centennial Campus. [1] The $115 million facility [2] opened in January 2013 and is best known for its architecture and technological integration, including a large robotic book storage and retrieval system which houses most of the university's engineering ...
The Maughan Library (/ m ɔː n /) is the main university research library of King's College London, forming part of the Strand Campus.A 19th-century neo-Gothic building located on Chancery Lane in the City of London, it was formerly the home to the headquarters of the Public Record Office, known as the "strong-box of the Empire", [4] and was acquired by the university in 2001.