{"id":115,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/branches\/branch-library-history-7\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:52","slug":"extinct2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/branches\/extinct2\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Departmental Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recreational Reading Libraries<\/span><\/p>\n

Union Library:\u00a0 In 1931 a recreational reading library was opened in the Iowa Memorial Union.\u00a0 The northeast corner of the sunporch was modified to accommodate the 650 books, and the furnishings, including bookcases, were moveable so parties and other occasions could use the space.<\/p>\n

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\"Currier\"<\/p>\n

In March 1934 a reading room was established in Currier Hall, followed by the Quadrangle in the fall.\u00a0 The University’s Graphic and Plastic Arts Department designed bookplates for the books in these libraries.<\/p>\n

\"quadbookplate\"\u00a0 \"currier<\/p>\n

The English Reading Room was established in October 1940 in the same room which housed the Ranney and Springer collections in Schaeffer Hall.\u00a0 This room was intended for undergraduate majors in English and Honors sections of English.<\/p>\n

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German Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Begun in 1891 when Charles B. Wilson, professor of German, instituted a plan to build a German library through donations from Iowa Germans. These 400 books were destroyed in the 1897 fire.\u00a0 In 1909 the German Library was located in room 103 of Schaeffer.\u00a0 It was consolidated into the Foreign Language Libraries along with classical and romance language books in 1932.<\/p>\n

Military Library<\/span>
\nThe Military Library, a small, rarely used office collection which had been in existence since the 1890s, was transferred to the general library in the spring of 1943.<\/p>\n

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