This month’s cover features an image of a woodcut print by Carol Lebeaux of Williston Memorial Library at Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke’s first library was built in 1837, the same year of its founding. In 1870, it was expanded to a larger building, as the school had grown so much since its creation, therefore needing to house more books. In 1896, there was a fire that destroyed the Seminary building, damaging part of the attached library. The bricks from the original building were then used for the construction of a new library on the same site in 1905. The new library was named after A. Lyman Williston, a Trustee of the College. The second library, or rather the current building, was designed by George F. Newton, with a Gothic Revival influence in mind. There have been several significant renovations and expansions to the library in the last century.

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