====== Libraries ======

The university has had a number of libraries, both public and clubs, over the years. Collections have been held in multiple locations over the years.

===== Head Librarian =====
  * Henry Hill Goodell (1885-1899)
  * Ella Frances Hall (1899-1908)
  * Charles R. Green (1908-1921)
  * Henry S. Green (1921-1924)
  * Basil Boise Wood (1924-1952)
  * Hugh Montgomery (1952-1966)

===== Director of Libraries =====
  * David Clay (1966-1972) as Director of Libraries
  * Merle Boylan Jr. (1972-1973) as University Librarian and Director
  * Richard Talbot (1973-1996)
  * Margo Crist (1997-2003)
  * Gerald “Jay” Shafer (2004-Summer 2016)

===== Dean of Libraries =====
  * Simon Neame (Summer 2016-Summer 2021)
  * Jennifer Friedman (July-August 2021, July 2022 as Acting Dean)
  * Sarah Hutton (August 2021-July 2022 as Interim Dean)
  * Nandita Mani (August 2022-2024)

===== Timeline =====

====   South College reading room: 1887? ====

  * No library building for the first 20 years of Mass Aggie’s existence
    * Supplemented by literary societies and Amherst College begins lending materials in 187?
  *1880: Library open for nine hours a week
  *1883: Alumni Library Committee seeks funds for stone library building
  *1885: 500 Volumes collected
    *Fire Destroys Collection (Redeveloped by faculty donation)

==== Old Chapel Library: 1884/1885 ====
  *Built between 1884 and 1885
  *First floor is the first official library space on campus
  *ca. 1890: 10,000 Volumes
  *1907: 28,000 volumes
  *1910: Chapel is wired for electricity
  *1915: Stockbridge Hall and Bowker Auditorium open
  *The Chapel becomes the “Chapel Library”

==== Goodell Library: 1935 ====
  *Goodell opened initially as a library building to hold 135,000 volumes
    *Chapel becomes “Old Chapel”
  *1952: Hampshire Inter Library Loan Center opens in South Hadley
    *Disbanded in 1977
  *1960: Goodell addition completed to house 460,000 volumes
  *1960s: A Proposal for Undergraduate Library Services: 1970-1980
    *Beginning of the push for a new library and building programs that result in the Tower Library
  *Goodell will be overrun by the mid 70s, need for a new building will be critical by the 1980s
  *April 28, 1969: Ground broken on the Tower Library
  *1970s: Budget for acquisitions begins to shrink
  *1971: One Millionth Volume added to the Collection

==== University Library Tower: 1973 ====

  *1973: Building opens, move takes place between May 24 and June 26
    *Branches opened at the Morrill Biological Sciences Library and the Physical Sciences Library at the Lederle Lowrise, Music Library in Fine Arts Center
    *University Archives established in 1973
  *1974: UMass Circulation System is automated
  *1977: HILC disbanded, Five College Consortium origins begin
  *Labor Day Weekend 1979: Tower Library closed for an indeterminate amount of time
    *Dec. 5, 1979: Tower opened for limited use, deck remains closed
    *Dec. 13, 1979: 500 person occcupancy limit
    *Expected to return to normal use in 1982
  *1980s: Automation of the Five College Consortium System
  *Beginning of serious campus financial crises
    *Acquisitions budget falls in fiscal years 1982-86, rises 1986-88, falls 1988-92, rises 1992-94 (maintains 1994-99), rises 1999-01
  *Response to 9/11 is to eliminate library acquisitions funding -- drops from 4.5 million to zero
  *1986: Mass Transformation project
  *June 16, 1986: Library reopens following extensive renovations to add two new floors
  *Fiscal Year 89: ⅓ of the budget bunding is lost, majority of serials cancelled , acquisitions program changes to “austere”; continues into FY 90
  *1990s: Safety concerns begin to be raised by students
==== W.E.B. Du Bois Library: 1996 ====
  *Second Student movement convinces Board of Trustees to rename the Tower Library
    *September 1996: Calipari Room opens
  *2000: UMass Libraries Shared Digital Repository for the five UMass campuses
    *December 2000: Three Millionth Volume Added
  *Fiscal Year 01: Digital Databases begin to be collected
    *Supplement the Serials being cut due to budget cuts
  *September 2001: Physical and Biological Science Libraries combine to form the Integrated Science and Engineering Library/ISEL opens February 2004?
    *Name drops the word “Integrated” in the early 2010s
    *Response to 9/11
    *Budget from state reduced from $14-11 Million, $1 Million of the acquisitions budget is lost
  *October 2001: Music Reserves Library integrated into Du Bois, Reserves Lab remains in Fine Art Center with heavily used materials
  *December 2001: Book purchases are halted due to budget restraints, $1 Million in journals cancelled
  *October 2005: Learning Commons dedicated
    *Additional donation by Microsoft in June 2006
    *Renovations to 2nd and 3rd floor financed
    *Expansion into User Services rather than a book depository
  *2006: 90% increase in student use of the library since Learning Commons dedication
  *2010: Renovations are completed bringing the Learning Commons and lower floors to their current state (a project which began in 2005 and went into high gear in 2010)
  *2011: Team Based Learning Classroom opens in the Learning Commons
    *Open Access initiatives begin in conjunction with the Provost's office
  *2012: Multimedia Commons at early stages (becomes the Digital Media Lab)
    *Cafe moves to its current Location
  *2014: Open Access initiatives continue
  *March 13, 2020: staff and librarians sent home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote work begins
  *August 2, 2021: staff and librarians return to work on campus amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic