Show The Library Its is the second in a of articles about the University Today's story features the Library's past During the Civil the Library became and after the war conditions became worse for a conflict arose between Utah and the At this no money was appropriated for the In the Legislature voted to give the territorial library to the This territorial library had exceptional material on the colonial days and also specific information on the history of certain As an this library had original manuscripts containing information on the settlement of Florida which Florida itself did not In the territory finally became a state and money was enabling the use of a full time George appointed as was also an assistant professor of economics and sociology and Ester Nelson followed Coray as librarian and worked with the University until During the year of he traveled East to attend a special library school and upon his he transformed the makeshift card catalog into the Dewey Decimal The first library on this campus was located in the Liberal Arts which is now known as the Math It was later moved to the Park Building where the law library is now located the George Thomas Library was constructed to permanently house the The George Thomas Library was the first building to receive federal aid and was constructed to make employment for the many people who were out of work during the It was thought at that time that the Library would be adequate for at least 50 It is easy to see why such an estimate could be made with only the small book budget of Most of the departments could spend a year for the biology and English departments had to spend on books per In the budget for the Library was so low that the West high school library had a better collection of home economics books than did our |