University of Michigan: $16.8M Renovation to U-M’s 90-year-old Clements Library Begins
From AnnArbor.com:
The university has dedicated $10 million of its money and $6.8 million in donations to a two-year renovation project of the building on U-M’s central campus tucked behind the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and next to the Shapiro Undergraduate Library.
The Clements Library, built in 1923 and designed by Albert Kahn, houses a large collection of books and documents on American history prior to 1900.
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Among those documents are the first letter written by Christopher Columbus, and all of George Washington’s medical records.
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The biggest physical expansion of space for the library will be a 3,000-square-foot basement addition that will add space for mechanical equipment. A part of the expansion will also be used to house shelves of books – and will give the library room to grow its collections.
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See Also: U-M’s Clements Library will undergo physical transformation (via U. of Michigan News Service)
See Also: University of Michigan Board of Regents Approve $16.8 Million Renovation of Clements Library (November 15, 2012)
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