Rebuilding: Carlton Library

Transcript for newspaper excerpt to the left: CARLTON BUILDING TO BE FORMALLY PRESENTED. To Take Place Saturday With the Donors Expected, Many Prominent Personages on Program. The Carlton Library Building is now completed and is to be formally presented to the College on Saturday morning next at 11:30. It is expected that the donors of the building will be present. They are: Mr. P. J. Carlton, Richmond, VA. Mr. Herbert A. Carlton, Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Luther Carlton, Kinston, N. C. Mrs. T. E. Parrott, Newman, Ga. The occasion is to be a memorable one in the annuals of the College. Dr. Louis R. Wilson, of the University of North Carolina, is to deliver an address on "The Place of the Library in College Life." Dr. J. W. Wellons, life long friend and spiritual advisor of the Carlton family, is to make a brief talk in appreciation of the donors of the building. Mr. D. R. Fonville, Trustee of the College, is to accept the building on behalf of the College. Dr. J. O. Atkinson will also have part in the presentation exercises. President Harper will preside. Mr. Joe W. Stout, General Contractor, and Mr. Herbert B. Hunter, architect, will both be present at the presentation exercise. The Carlton Library Building is one of the most complete and modernly appointed College Libraries in the country. Its stack-room has ultimate capacity for 187,500 books. There are fourteen professors' studies for the heads of the departments of the College. There are seven seminar rooms, besides two reading rooms-one for young men and one for young women- a Librarian's office, the cataloging room and the stock or supply room. The building is unique also in that its stack-room is a building in the form of a vault inside the Library Building itself which is fire-proof. This gives double protection against fire or other accidents and is a feature that the donors especially insisted upon. The donors have not only given the building but they have furnished it throughout. The total cost of the building is right around $100,000.00. Up to this time this is the first building of the group of five that has been given and furnished by a single family of donors. The College is under lasting obligation to these generous friends, and it is expected that every student and faculty member will be present at the formal exercises and that other friends will also be present. Immediately following the formal exercises of presentation, the donors of the Library and the participants in the program will be served a luncheon in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Harper.

Transcript for newspaper excerpt to the left: THE CARLTON BUILDING. If we were asked what building in the group of new buildings on Elon's campus meant most to the student body as a whole, it would be hard to answer. They, are all splendid buildings and fill a real need in the life of the College. We could not do without any of them without feeling the loss. But if there is any one building used more by the students as a body, with the exception of the Alamance Hall where the recitations are held, it is the Library. This building is opened to the students at most all hours of the day. They can go here and read newspapers, periodicals of the best, do research work and do so under the most pleasant surroundings and the best environment for study. The Carlton Bui'dings means affords all this to the Elon student body. The building is a thing of beauty in itself. There is in the building the most modern library equipment to be found. Not only does it mean all this to the students but the Faculty have been provided for. There are professors' studies. Here they can do research work and do it in nice rooms especially provided for them. The building should be used as much as possible for a College Library should have a place in the work of all the students. The Carlton Building means much to Elon.