📚 Academics
Newman Library
Opened 1955
Newman Library, the main campus library
Photo: Eric T Gunther, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main campus library, built on the site of the 1905 stone Chapel.
Fun facts
- •Newman Library holds over 2.5 million volumes and is the largest library in the Virginia Tech system.
- •It was the largest building on campus when it opened in 1955.
- •It stands where the 1905 Chapel stood. That stone building later served as the library and burned in 1953 while it was being torn down.
Through the years
- 1955
Opened
- 1981
Curved six-story addition
- 2008
Main entrance moved back to the second floor
Stories that happened here
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Close by
A short walk from Newman Library.
