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location of Shilling Hall (#1 on map)From the beginning in 1903, "The library occupied rooms on the south side of the main corridor, east of the central stairway in the Liberal Arts Building [now Shilling Hall]. There it remained for twenty-eight years, gradually expanding in its vicinity until at last it overflowed altogether and was removed to its own new building in 1931." (Gage, Daniel J. The Millikin Story, 1900-1970. Typescript, p.32.) |
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October 14, 1903: Darwin's Animals and Plants Under Domestication was the first library title catalogued. Both volumes of it are still available in the library's stacks. |
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1906 Millikin University Library Science class. Front row, left to right: Anne Boyd, [?], Minnie Redmon, Jessie Ferguson. Second row: Eugenia Allin (instructor), Florence Scott, Estelle Bryant, Isabel Bumgarner |
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