University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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The doors are open; the lights invite us. It is for us to decide whether to cross the threshold of this opportunity offered us by the William D. McIntyre Library. Here we find hundreds of students of Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire making daily use of scores of magazines, adequate table space, audiovisual facilities, and most important, thousands of liooks. These provide us with the key to the inner door of real knowledge and charge us with u great responsibility. The cross-table chatterers and the browsing room haunters often find that they have misused the offered key. and the key is portioned out to those who make valid use of the library’s books, who willingly spend time l ecoming acquainted with some of the greatest poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists they will ever know. We can open these liooks in the Blu-gold room, in the dormitories, or even in a crowded hallway and find that we have much to gain. Always, though, the greatest gain is the initiation of an insatiable desire to return to the source from which these l ooks came and choose more and even better ones. Some day we will have to leave this library behind, perhaps never to return, but we will always carry with us the valuable knowledge wc have gained from the liooks within its doors. As we move on to the use of other libraries in many parts of the world, wc will remember the William D. McIntyre Library which opened doors for us.