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January 21, 2008
Shapiro Library - 50th Anniversary
The Shapiro Library building is fifty years old!
The Shapiro building originally housed the Undergraduate Library, which opened to the public on January 16, 1958. The new library cost approximately $3.1 million, and would be open until midnight six days a week. For the first time at a UM library, all of the stacks were open to students.
In 1995 the building was renovated and expanded, and reopened on May 19, 1995, with the Science Library on the third and fourth floors.
We have continued to update and improve resources and services such as the Adaptive Technology Computing Site and the Askwith Media Library. We look forward to continuing to serve your research and information needs for decades to come.
Read more about the history of the UM Libraries and the history of buildings at UM.
Posted by betsywil at January 21, 2008 09:53 AM