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RUSH RHEES LIBRARY

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Rush Rhees Library

The University's main library, named for the third president of the University. Rush Rhees was born in 1860 and died in 1939, he served as president from 1900 to 1935. In 1927, he broke ground at the former Oak Hill Country Club for construction of the River Campus. The Library was dedicated in 1930 with the other original River Campus buildings. In 1970, a major addition was added to the back of the Library. The back entrance now leads into the Information Technology Services (ITS) main computing lab.

The River Campus Libraries, Headquartered in Rush Rhees Library, holds about 2.5 million volumes and provide access to an extensive collection of electronic, multimedia, and interlibrary loan resources. In addition to Rush Rhees, the libraries include the Art and Music Library, the Chester F. Carlson Science Library (science & engineering), the Government Documents & Microtext Center, the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics Library, the Management Library, the Multimedia Center, the Physics-Optics-Astronomy (POA) Library, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, and the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation.