the most conveniently
appointed and successful college library in the country. The building
will accommodate over one million volumes and there are definite plans
for future extension which will house over three-quarters of a million
in addition. The stack wing of the old Library was incorporated in the
building, permitting the gradual erection of the new structure in such a
manner that the use of the books was not interfered with at any time.
The new Library was formally opened on January 7, 1920, with an address
by Mr. R.R. Bowker, the editor of _The Library Journal_, as the
principal feature of the programme. The building cost, completed and
furnished, $615,000, of which amount the sum of $550,000 was especially
appropriated by the State Legislature.

After the resignation of the first Librarian, the Rev. Henry Colclazer,
in 1845, the charge of the Library was passed around from one member of
the Faculty to another until the appointment of John L. Tappan in 1856,
nominally the eighth, though in reality the first Librarian. He was
followed by Datus Chase Brooks, who held the position one year, when the
Rev. Andrew Ten Brook, who had once before held the title during the
year 1850-51, returned to the University as Librarian in 1864. Not only
were the affairs of the Library well cared for during his
administration, but he also found time to write his "History of State
Universities," which gives the only adequate picture we have of the
beginnings of the University, by one who shared their trials and
triumphs. Upon his resignation in 1877 Raymond Cazallis Davis, '55-'57,
A.M. (hon.) '81, succeeded him, contributing greatly during the
twenty-eight years of his administration towards the establishment of
the Library on its present effective basis. In this effort he was
supported by the advice and co-operation of Professor Isaac N. Demmon,
who was for thirty-seven years a member of the Library Committee.
Theodore Wesley Koch, Harvard, '93, became Librarian in 1905, coming
from the Library of Congress in Washington. It was his main effort to
popularize the use of the Library among the students and Faculties,
through making the reading-rooms more attractive and the books more
accessible. The Library of Congress was again called upon for his
successor after he resigned in 1915, when the present Librarian, William
Warner Bishop, '92, came in time to give his experience and
administrative ability to the planning and construction