University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Science Building

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Cam iim View • Algoma Boulevard

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College Library The Library A.v arrangement was liegun in 1KS0 muter President Alins by which tin simlents were divided into sections « f a dozen to twenty each, meet in j: onee a week with a timelier to report on hooks wliieh had I icon read. The hooks were selected hy the teaelier of literature so as to meet, tin presumable mental attainment and taste of each section. The students and faculty have organized a Heading Room, where the leading periodicals are furnished at a nominal cost to each pupil.” A student was employed to put the ncws|Mipcrs in the holders and otherwise keep the room In order. 'I'h employing of a librarian to catalogue the books and assist students In using them was likewise liegun hy voluntary contributions. Stimulated by this example. the Hoard in 1KNX authorized librarians at Platteville. Whitewater, and Oshkosh at salaries of . 12.% js r annum. In 18J11 the Hoard granted . .% Hi for clerical work and services as librarian in the Normal School tit Oshkosh. The first catalogue mentions: After the tire of HUB the present library unit was started in 1017 and finished in HUS. The lire was a great disaster, for many books in the reference library could not be replaced.” The library contains 21».oou books for circulation, 20.0 Ml for text books, and about 2.«hhi pamphlets, and hundreds of pictures. It receives regularly 170 l»criodicnts. besides some of the outstanding news-pa|M rs. Its reading room will seat 300 students. The walls were |tuiut -d and a new floor was laid under the WPA project. The mural was i hi luted by Hurton Potterveld under the Federal Art Project. It I tort rays the throe important phases of the development of the Fox Valley, namely the Indian. The Legendary Stories of Paul Hunyan. the industrial development of the lumbering.