I love, Love, LOVE libraries. Last year when library funding would be cut if the Cabell County Excess Levy passed in the May election, I made two videos about Cabell County's EIGHT branch libraries. Here they are: Huntington's Downtown Library Seven More Libraries in Cabell County
btw: The excess levy failed in May, but it passed in the November election when full funding was restored to the libraries (and parks)! ***** Yesterday I had the privilege of spending time in Morrow Library
which is open to everyone, not just Marshall students.
When you give them advance notice, they will have waiting for you the resources you need:
These boxes were waiting for me.
Morrow Library, opened in 1930, was partially funded by Dwight Morrow, and named for his father, James E. Morrow, the principal of Marshall College in 1872-1873.
Today it contains Morrow Stacks which has 2/3 of the campus book collection and Special Collections with university archives,
rare books, the Chuck Yeager Room,
and other important collections. The Natural Resources and Earth Sciences Department and testing rooms are also here. ***** Since I spent months studying today's campus, I was excited to see this aerial photograph of the MU campus (circa 1940),
and under the photograph is this scale model of the campus from 1967.
Morrow Library exists due to the efforts of countless thousands (millions?) of people who have written the books, magazines, letters, and newspapers, taken the photographs, painted the portraits, built the models, donated the money, designed the building, laid the bricks, built the windows, cut down the trees, worked the help counter, organized the volumes... And we lucky people get to just walk in and relish it all.
