U. Grant Miller Library
U. Grant Miller Library
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| Type | Academic library |
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| Location | Washington, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°10′11″N 80°14′25″W / 40.16972°N 80.24028°W |
| Collection | |
| Items collected | print, digital, video, and microform |
| Size | 210,000 |
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| Population served | Washington & Jefferson College |
| Website | http://libguides.washjeff.edu/home |
U. Grant Miller Library is the academic library for Washington & Jefferson College, located in Washington, Pennsylvania. With its origins tracing back to a donation from Benjamin Franklin in 1789, the collection currently hold 210,000 volumes. The Archives and Special Collections contain significant holdings of historical papers dating to the College's founding. The Walker Room contains the personal library of prominent industrialist John Walker, complete with all of his library's fixtures and furniture, installed exactly how it had been during Walker's life.
In 1789, a £50 gift from Benjamin Franklin formed the nucleus of the library at Washington College. The library has identified five books in the collection from this original purchase. After the unification of Washington College and Jefferson College, the combined library was located in Thompson Memorial Hall and moved to the current building in 1965. The first unified library on campus was the Thompson Library, which is currently known as Thompson Hall. The modern-day Miller Library collection has an open collection of 210,000 volumes, 500 periodical titles, over 17,000 Electronic journals, 9,500 of which are full text and integrated into the electronic library catalog. The audio collection has 4,000 LP records and 300 CDs.
In the mid-1850s, the Washington College Young Men's Christian Association chapter held 300 volumes in its library collection.
When Pittsburgh iron and steel industrialist John Walker died in 1932, the Walker family donated his private library to the College. His entire library was installed in the library exactly as it had been—including an extensive collection of books, bookcases, pictures, furniture, chandeliers, and stained-glass lamps. It had been originally installed in the Thompson Library, but moved to its current location in 1965.
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