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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 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 ...
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]
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.
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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]
One of the most beautiful library branches in Minneapolis, the library was built out of marble and featured mahogany inside. [3] In 1960 a new Central Library opened right across the river from the Pillsbury Library so a location closer to the University Community's core was sought. The Southeast Library replaced the Pillsbury Library in 1967.
The Metropolitan State University Library and Learning Center is located in the same building as the Saint Paul Public Library's Dayton's Bluff Branch. It was the first joint-use library in Minnesota to house both an academic library and a public library, [4] and is one of only seven such libraries in the United States. [1]