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Clemson University student Annie Barrett, a freshman studying biological science from Bluffton, S.C., swabs her cheeks to get put on the registry for Be the Match, the national bone marrow donor program. If Barrett winds up becoming a match that simple swab can save a child’s life. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Bill Ashman and Clinton Colmenares watch a 2X4 shatter against a laminated wood target at the Clemson University’s Wind Load Testing Facility. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University student Katherine Armstrong, of Greenville, S.C., a sophomore studying secondary education, gets a surprise pre-Valentines Day serenade from TigeRoar, Clemson’s all-male a cappella ensemble, while trying to study in the R.M. Cooper Library, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Janet Bean and Ron Grant, aka Anna Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson, chat in the foyer of Clemson University’s R.M. Cooper Library, Nov. 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Arthur H. Dean Room
The General Reading Room, now known as the Dean Room, is Uris Library’s most commanding interior space and its prominence is significant. While not the first library to contain such a space, architect William Henry Miller’s design reflects a major shift in how academic libraries functioned.
Previously, university libraries were essentially storage facilities open to faculty only a few hours per week. But Cornell’s library building was designed to accommodate a collection of 400,000 books and to provide a convenient way for people to access and use those books. Built into the natural slope of the site, no book in the library was more than 120 feet away from the service desk at the west end of the General Reading Room – the same place where today’s circulation desk is located.
Cornell may have had the first American university library intended for extensive use by undergraduates as well as faculty, thanks to the vision of its first University Librarian Willard Fiske. Cornell’s library was open nine hours a day, longer than any other college library in the country. Hours were extended even further in 1885, when Cornell’s library, then located in McGraw Hall, became one of the first American libraries to be lighted by electricity.
The library may have been open, but books did not leave the building. From the beginning, the library was conceived as a non-circulating reference library. Only later after conducting a survey of other libraries in 1908 did Cornell agree to allow books to be borrowed by its faculty and students.
By then, the stacks were already becoming overcrowded. Lack of adequate space for books and readers became a frequent source of contention over the next 50 years and these pressures were not completely remedied until Olin Library was built in 1961.
Renamed in 1962 for Harold D. Uris, a graduate of Cornell’s Class of 1925 and a Cornell trustee from 1967 to 1972, Uris Library was designated as the “undergraduate library,” so that these students would not have to compete with graduate students or faculty for resources, services or study space.
The Dean Room is named for Arthur H. Dean, an Ithaca native, Cornell alumnus, attorney, diplomat, United Nations delegate, and Cornell University trustee. He and his wife Mary provided funds for the renovation of Uris Library and the building of Olin Library. Thousands of rare books and manuscripts have been added to the library collections as a result of their generosity, and to foster a love of books and reading among Cornell’s students, they also began the library’s first undergraduate book collection contest, which lasted from 1966 until 1989.
The Dean Room is now, as it has always been, a reading room where one can study quietly or take advantage of other traditional library services. It is also a hub of new activities. Card catalogs have been replaced by computers and wireless connections make access to Cornell’s digital resources possible here and throughout the building.
In the northwest corner of the room hang portraits of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the University’s co-founders. They are joined by portraits of Cornell’s past presidents, which proceed in chronological order as you move counterclockwise around the room.
Elements of Cornell’s history are preserved in Uris Library’s architecture and art work. As you tour the building, we hope that you can appreciate Andrew Dickson White’s belief that: “the library is the heart of the university, ‘the culmination of all.’”
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
WYFF reporter Mandy Gaither interviews Madison Williams in Memorial Stadium, April 27, 2018. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Air Force Col. William R. Austin Jr. returns to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport to a hero’s welcome, accompanied by his family, March 29, 1973. (Photo by George W. Garnder Jr., The Greenville News)
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association deliver a care package to retired U.S. Marine and WWII Veteran Curtis Spearman, 94, at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Trees and benches lined up outside of Stauffer Library at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association unload care packages at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Music Hall, Valparaiso, Ind.
Dear Old Friend of
days gone by,
Have You forgotten quite,
The jolly time we
used to have;
If not -- Why don't you
Write?
Date: 1912
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: January 9, 1912, Indiana
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2024. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
Witches around a cauldron, woodcut on title page. The site is strewn with bones, and one of the witches is taking something from the mouth of the dead child, presumably to add to the brew.
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association deliver care packages at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
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U.S. Navy veteran Charles Ray Davis aka “Chef Charles” greets U.S. Army veteran Brennan Beck, military and veteran engagement assistant director for Clemson University, at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
The cast of Clemson University’s production of The Diviners, a play by Jim Leonard Jr., run through the show during a tech rehearsal in the courtyard of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, April 13, 2018. The production was originally slated to run in the blackbox theater inside the center, but was forced to tear down, reconstruct and hold performances outside in the courtyard when a colony of bats was discovered in the building. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Clemson University alumnus Andrew Whitley and performing arts professor Kerrie Seymour share a laugh backstage in front of the fly lines of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, June 19, 2017. Seymour was Whitley’s theater professor and the two were both cast in a production of “Spring Awakening” at the Warehouse Theater in Greenville after Whitley graduated. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Original Crystal Ball from the Wizard of Oz
1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
On loan from Jay ’77 and Eileen ’76, MBA ’78 Walker and The Walker Library of Human Imagination
The Oz crystal ball is a transparent hand-blown glass globe with an open neck at the bottom, similar to a dry lightbulb. It is not perfectly spherical but very slightly egg shaped. Experts have painstakingly authenticated the artifact by mapping slight imperfections (bubbles) in the glass, then matching them with images of the crystal ball as it appeared in the film.
The Duke Chapel on an spectacular spring day; in my four years at Duke, this is the best sky I ever saw Click Here to see it larger and on black
Volunteers with the Clemson University Student Veterans Association unload care packages at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Anderson, S.C., Oct. 21, 2017. This was the second year the CSVA delivered packages to veterans in the home. Each box contained a hand-written note from a member of the Clemson Family. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Families, students, faculty, staff and administrators came together to celebrate the college, student achievement, and larger community.
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Janet Bean and Ron Grant, aka Anna Calhoun and Thomas Green Clemson, chat in the foyer of Clemson University’s R.M. Cooper Library, Nov. 6, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
Three Clemson University nursing students show off the roses they received from Clemson’s a-male a cappella ensemble TigeRoar after a surprise serenade after class, Feb. 10, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)
A group of Marine Corps and Navy veterans on a three-day retreat with Honoring Their Service pose with the Clemson Tiger in front of Memorial Stadium, June 22, 2017. (Photo by Ken Scar)