Facilities
The Valley Library is a six-story, rectangular building with a rotunda on the east side. Designed in a contemporary, neoclassical style, the structure has a veneer of red brick, with white-colored aluminum solar screening on the rotunda and the fifth floor of the north side added for decoration. The internal support structure consists of steel beams and concrete slabs.
Below ground-level on the north side, the first floor includes a cafe and study rooms. The main floor, which is the second floor, includes a two-story atrium as well as the circulation desk and main entrance. The third floor contains the OSU Archives, and along with the fourth floor, houses the library's offices. A children's library and the special collections are located on the fifth floor, while the sixth floor only covers the southern two-thirds of the structure.
Directly north of the building is the Library Quad, originally known as the East Quadrangle. The approximately 2.6-acre (1.1 ha) area was laid out about 1910 and is part of the Oregon State University Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 2008. A bell tower, or campanile, was added on the eastern edge of the quad in 2001. Dedicated to alumnus H. Dean Papé, the 68-foot (21 m) tall tower has five bells and a clock.
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