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OSU Buildings Histories in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center

Building History

Wikipedia 

This building opened in 1963 as Kerr Library, named for OAC president William Jasper Kerr, who served from 1907 to 1932. In 1996, it was expanded and renamed the Valley Library for Wayne and Gladys Valley and their Valley Foundation. The building houses 1.4 million volumes, study rooms, collaborative study spaces, and the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. The library is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and offers services including a coffee shop, child care, Student Multimedia Services and OSU Press.

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Maps

Facilities Services Records, 1888-2003. Series XX:  Campus, Farm, and Property Maps, 1899-1990. Campus and Farm Maps: 3-A

Oregon State University Campus Maps, 1894-1994
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Oregon State University Historical Photographs, 1868-1980

Further Archival Information

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