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A major new library was approved in 1913 and completed in 1919. This building forms the older portion of the Green Library. In 1980, a larger annex was added and the library renamed for Cecil H. Green. The original part of the building is now known as the Bing Wing for
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The earliest library at Stanford was in the inner quadrangle. It was housed in one large room capable of accommodating 100 readers. This was replaced in 1900 by a separate building on the outer quadrangle, named the
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library after its major donor. This library was recognized as being too small, and a new larger library in a separate building was begun, but it was destroyed in the
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style than the existing buildings. Several stories tall, this original construction was refurbished in 1999 and now forms the main halls and rotunda of the library.
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held a design competition for the new library and chose the submission of Joseph MacKay, a San Francisco art glassmaker, which drew more on
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Green Library's design was a significant and early departure from the architectural style of Stanford's Main Quad.
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New Building of the Stanford University Library and a History of the Library 1891-1919
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Books from Green and other Stanford libraries are being scanned as part of the
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Green Library houses 4 million volumes, most of which are related to the
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Buildings and structures destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Green Library

Stanford University
Stanford, California
Academic library
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Cecil H. Green
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Thomas Welton Stanford
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Peter Bing
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Jane Stanford
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