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Through the years
Highlights
of the Mary Couts Burnett Library
 1873
- AddRan Male and Female College established
1874 - Literary
societies formed to collect books
1877 - Gift
of 300 books by Maj. John T. Walton to Walton Literary Society
1892 - Edwin
J. Toof donates 1,045 volumes, enough to establish a library
1910 - Library
Association formed; a month later, fire destroys Waco campus building
and all but a handful of the libraryÕs 8,000 books are lost
1912 - Library
established in Reed Hall on new Fort Worth campus; 4,000 books spill out
of space within a few years
1923 - Mary
Couts Burnett gifts $3 million; part of it is used to build the library,
which was the first building on the east campus
1955 - William
Luther collection of 1,500 tomes donated
1959 - West
wing added; holdings number 330,000
1963 - Sunday
hours established
1964 - Holdings
pass half-million mark
1970 - Computerized
circulation system installed
1983 - East
wing with new entrance added
2001 - Bistro
Burnett and expanded computer lab added
2002 - Information
Commons established as holdings soar past 2 million.
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