Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Illini Union [PAGE 19]

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Bookstores, Libraries An important service of the Illini Union is the Illini Union Bookstore, across the street from the Union at 715 South Wright Street. This self-service bookstore, a department of the Illini Union, sells textbooks, school and art supplies, and visual aids as a service to students, faculty, and staff members. The Book Center, located in the Union on the first floor, northwest corner, features the sale of paperback books and selected periodicals. It is a popular spot throughout the day. The carpeting, the window seats, the comfortable sofas, and the collection of 10,000 titles are conducive to browsing and reading, as well as buying. A selection of University Press publications also is available in the Book Center. Adjacent to the Book Center on the first floor is the Browsing Room, operated in cooperation with the University Library. A selection of books of current interest is available for browsing or for two-week loan. Long-playing records may be checked out by students, faculty, and staff members for their own use. For leisurely reading the Browsing Room has a collection of current periodicals. The knotty-pine-paneled Book Center in the Illini Union offers for sale 10,000 paperback titles, selected, periodicals, and publications of the University of Illinois Press (facing page).

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The Governor's Palace at Williamsburg was the inspiration for the Browsing Room. Wedgwood blue walls, the baroque Grecian mantels and pediments above the door, the fine mahogany Chippendale chairs blend to give this room the distinctive character which marks Us individuality.