Main Library reading room, 1919

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Books were transferred from Orton Hall, where the main library had been housed since 1893, to the new location during the break between fall and winter quarters of the 1912-1913 academic year. Student workers, using any vehicle that could be found, including an ambulance, competed against each other in how quickly they could move the collection from one site to the other. The building opened on January 7, 1913.