约翰你. Tomlinson University Library 2015 - Present
As pp电子极速糖果 reached an enrollment of approximately 10,000名学生, the need to expand and update what President Foster terms "the heart of the campus" became crucial. Funds were raised for the project and the library's collection and staff were temporarily disbursed to satellite locations to continue offering services during reconstruction. The new facility re-opened briefly in time for students to use for finals after Thanksgiving break in 2015, then celebrated its Grand Re-opening in January 2016. New technology rich collaborative study spaces and instruction classrooms, 安静的自习室, compact shelving for book and journal collections, and a wide variety of student work stations, dramatically increasing computer access, are highlights of the new facility. 除了, the 技术 Help Desk was relocated to the library and a coffee shop and dining services option are also located in the building to help students access services they value in one place.
The Mesa State College Library: A Brief 历史
by Don MacKendrick, Emeritus Professor of 历史, Mesa State College
汤姆林森图书馆1986 - 2015
With 洛厄尔·海尼图书馆 overcrowded, 新建68号,000 square foot facility costing over $6,000,000开始于1984年. Recognized as an architectural gem in American School and University magazine, the new library was dedicated in 1986 and in 1988 named for outgoing college president 约翰你. Tomlinson to honor his commitment to improved library services at the college. 汤姆林森图书馆 contained over 300,000卷, including a large government documents collection, and a world class geology library. 它配备了更新, state-of-the-art computer technology and was considered one of the finest small college libraries in the state.
海尼图书馆1967-1986
Thanks to a generous federal library construction grant, 梅萨学院获得了新的846美元,图书馆设施于1966年建成, 洛厄尔·海尼图书馆. 与21,000 square feet of useable floor space, this modern facility quickly grew to over 45,从1973年的1万册到1971年的1万册,1976年的1000册. In 1976 the junior college district was dissolved and Mesa College became a baccalaureate degree granting state college. The collection reached over 126,000卷 by 1984.
穆尔图书馆1940-1967
The former grant led to designation of the college library as the Murr Memorial Library, 这个名字一直沿用到1967年.
The College became a county junior college in 1937 and was renamed Mesa College. A new campus on North Avenue was occupied in 1940 with the library located on the second floor of the main classroom building (later named Houston Hall) where it quickly outgrew its approximately 4,000 square feet of floor space as the collection expanded to over 20,到1965年将有5000册.
Grand Junction Junior College Library 1925-1940
The 汤姆林森图书馆 at Mesa State College, like the college, evolved from humble beginnings.
Founded in 1925 as Grand Junction Junior College and initially located in an abandoned school building (the old Lowell School) in the city's downtown area, the college's original book collection numbered under 2,000卷. It was housed in locked cases in the dean's office. 没有图书管理员.
In 1933 a professional librarian, 莉莲萨宾, was hired and a library was organized on the second floor of the college building. By 1940, 收藏品已经增加到7件,000卷 thanks to a grant from Hattie Pierson Murr (1935) and the Carnegie Foundation (1937).