Library
The Main Library or Mather Library was built in 1918. The collection contains over 1.7 million volumes of print and non-print materials, including the Protestant Episcopal Church collection and Edogawa Rampo collection.
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“It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.”
—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)