Williston
Memorial Library
The main building
of the Mount Holyoke College libraries, Williston Memorial Library
was built in 1905 and has undergone several renovations and expansions,
including the addition of the 33,000-square-foot wing completed
in 1992 and the addition of the Information
Commons in 2003. The Williston Library and Miles-Smith wing
offer pleasant spaces for study, some private rooms for collaboration,
and classrooms for course instruction. Also housed here is the
Writing Center, where students receive assistance with their writing
from faculty and trained student assistants. Recent building projects
have equipped the library with an infrastructure that supports
the latest computer technologies.
Named for A. Lyman
Williston in 1917, Williston Memorial Library was built on the
site of the 1870 library. The main reading room, built in 1905,
was designed to resemble Westminster Hall, an early English legal
chamber. The library's atrium, part of the 1992 renovation project,
is modeled after the Medici Library in Florence, Italy. A sixteenth-century
wellhead standing at the center of the court has a Latin inscription
chiseled into one of its panels, which when translated reads,
"You who are thirsty, come and drink freely." This inscription
is the library's motto.
The Music
and Dance Library is located in Pratt Hall, the music building.
For more information
visit the Library, Information,
and Technology Services Web site.
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