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Magill Library will be totally transformed by a renovation and revitalization that is scheduled to begin in January 2018. The building will be renamed Lutnick Library (for Howard Lutnick '83, who gave a $25 million gift to help fund the project), and its new incarnation will include enhanced technology, open and flexible spaces, renovated book stacks, increased accessibility for special collections, and a café. Heritage spaces, including the Magill Wing and its historic façade on Founders Green, will be preserved. 

Missed yesterday’s photo? See Magill Library back “Then“.

Magill Library

Long before it was renamed and expanded, Magill Library got its start as Alumni Hall. Originally proposed by the Haverford College Alumni Association as a place to hold meetings, the building took on a dual purpose when the Board of Managers suggested that a portion of the hall be used to accommodate the College’s library, which was then bursting out of a second story room in Founders Hall.

Come back tomorrow to see Magill Library at Haverford “Now”.

At Magill Library’s Special Collections, the focus is on making the Library’s extraordinary holdings—and the up-close glimpses of history they offer—widely available to faculty, students, and scholars.

Among the holdings in Special Collections' vast Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection are a number of letters written by Alexander Hamilton—who, though he's been dead for more than 200 years, has become just about the hottest Founding Father ever, thanks to the smash broadway musical Hamilton.

Among the holdings in Special Collections' vast Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection are a number of letters written by Alexander Hamilton—who, though he's been dead for more than 200 years, has become just about the hottest Founding Father ever, thanks to the smash broadway musical Hamilton.

At Magill Library’s Special Collections, the focus is on making the Library’s extraordinary holdings—and the up-close glimpses of history they offer—widely available to faculty, students, and scholars.

In the Collection

Among Special Collections’ latest acquisitions is a second edition of a Zapotec catechism and several other religious texts published in Mexico in 1766. These bilingual works were purchased in consultation with Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen, whose research focuses on Zapotec, an endangered language family indigenous to southern Mexico.

In the Collection

Among Special Collections’ latest acquisitions is a second edition of a Zapotec catechism and several other religious texts published in Mexico in 1766. These bilingual works were purchased in consultation with Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen, whose research focuses on Zapotec, an endangered language family indigenous to southern Mexico.