{"id":519,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:19:38","slug":"current","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/present\/current\/","title":{"rendered":"The Building Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d <a href=\"\/history\/present\/additions\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/present\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In 1967, a plan was submitted to the Board of Regents to almost double the size of the library.<br \/>\nThe preliminary budget was for $6,670,000. The architects for the addition were Charles<br \/>\nRichardson and Associates of Davenport, Iowa.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/15555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/1970-constructing.jpg\" alt=\"1971 construction\" width=\"397\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction begins for the final addition. (Iowa Digital Library: <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/15555\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/15555<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/1970interior.jpg\" alt=\"1970 interior\" width=\"389\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of the final addition. (Iowa Digital Library: <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17747\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17747<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17779\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/southentrance.gif\" alt=\"south entrance\" width=\"270\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction almost completed, 1972. (Iowa Digital Library: <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17779\">http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17779<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/latespring.gif\" alt=\"South Entrance\" width=\"356\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Main Library&#8217;s south entrance as it appears today.<br \/>(Photo by Kathy Wachel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Library Building \u2013 \u201cMain Library\u201d previous | next In 1967, a plan was submitted to the Board of Regents to almost double the size of the library. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":512,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/519\/revisions\/1172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}