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 ((Both reports are from the Trinity College Treasurer's Records, Box 6: Real Estate - Buildings - Library - Construction, 1950-1952))
-At the same time, Watkinson Library trustees were seeking another institution with which to affiliate. Between 1949 and 1951, Trinity College offered to clean and restore its books, then permanently house the Watkinson Library on its campus in a new library building to be constructed. After Donald B. Engley took the position of Associate Librarian at Trinity, he helped plan the move to Trinity.
+At the same time, Watkinson Library trustees were undergoing "a long and serious search" to find another institution with which to affiliate, as their collections were deteriorating and suffering due to financial strain at the Hartford Public Library/Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Historical Society.((Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News), May 1950, p.5.)) Conversations began between the Watkinson Trustees and Trinity College. Between 1949 and 1951, Trinity College offered to clean and restore its books, then construct a new library building to permanently house the Watkinson Library collections alongside its own. After Donald B. Engley took the position of Associate Librarian at Trinity, he helped plan the move to Trinity. "This merger of two libraries will bring together two distinguished collections to make one of the finest libraries in the entire country," Engley said. ((Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News), May 1950, p. 6.))
-By 1950, the funds were secured and construction on the Trinity Library could begin.
+By 1950, the funds were secured and construction on the Trinity Library could begin. It would be the first time in Trinity's history that the collections would move to a library building all their own.
-===== Raether Library and Information Technology Center =====
+===== Trinity College Library =====
+==== The First Library Building (1950) ====
-==== The New Library (1952-1977) ====
 [{{:reading_room.jpg?350 |The George Hamlin Memorial Reading Room, ca. 1952. Photo credit: [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34658847|Trinity College Archives]]}}]
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 The student body more than doubled in size by 1977 due to the introduction of [[coeducation|coeducation]] and expanding enrollment quotas, overtaxing the building. Meanwhile, the library collections were steadily growing at a rate of about 10,000 volumes per year. As such, Trinity's 150th Anniversary Capital Campaign included a library expansion that was overdue: "Nearly 50,000 volumes, of the library's total collection of 597,389 items are presently stored in the basement of the [[albert_c._jacobs_life_sciences_center_lsc|Life Sciences building]]. The new addition is intended to accommodate library expansion for approximately another twenty years." ((//Trinity Tripod//, 17 Oct 1978))
-==== A Technological Expansion (1978-2000) ====
+==== A Technological Expansion (1978) ====
 [{{ :librarymodel.jpg?300|Architect's model of the 1977 expansion.}}]
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 Another major library renovation was also on the horizon--having begun investigation in 1991. The library expansion became part of a Capital Campaign as well as the 1997 Master Plan. This time, the renovation would not just be for space and print volumes, but have the capacity to incorporate new departments, technology, and network infrastructure.
-==== LITC (2001-present) ====
+==== Raether Library and Information Technology Center (2001) ====
 Breaking ground on May 19, 2001, the library's second renovation and expansion doubled the building's size and was completed in 2003. Designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) Architects of Toronto, much of the new addition was on the library's south side. The building was renamed the Library and Information Technology Center (LITC), dedicated to Wendy and Paul E. Raether ’68, P’93, ’96, ’01.
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 [{{:main_stairs.jpg?300 |The main stairs on Level A, ca. 2011. Photo credit: [[https://www.facebook.com/TrinityCollegeLibrary |Trinity College]]}}]
-In 2022 and 2023, the library invited student artists to paint murals to brighten common areas and expanded leisure reading areas with the removal of stacks and addition of cozy furniture. The library has also created new exhibition spaces in order to showcase art as well as interesting items from the archives and special collections, just as it did in 1952.
 In 2023, Trinity College officially became a part of the Boston Library Consortium, joining 23 other New England area institutions in a collaboration of shared resources and professional development opportunities.
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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver.
-[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/265|Trinity College Bulletin, 1963-1964 (Report of the Librarian)]] (1964).
+[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/265|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1963-1964 (Report of the Librarian) (1964).
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/2897|The Trinity Tripod]], 12/10/1952.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31511595|The Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News),]] May 1950.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29484121|The Trinity Tripod]], 12/14/1946.
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/534|Trinity College Bulletin (Report of the Librarian)]] (1941).