| 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 |
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| 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.
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