The University Libraries is the main library located on the campus of Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The University Libraries supports the Bowling Green State University mission by: advancing scholarship, critical thinking, and creativity for a diverse community of users; building, organizing and maintaining focused collections for academic, creative and research interests; and teaching users to identify, locate, assess, and effectively use a full range of information resources.
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“I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
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—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)
“Among the Indians he had fought;
And with him many tales he brought
Of pleasure and of fear;
Such tales as told to any Maid
By such a Youth, in the green shade,
Were perilous to hear.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
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—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)