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Caption: Book - 100 Years of Campus Architecture (Allen Weller)
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Library The new Library, built in 1926, is one of architect Charles A. Piatt's most distinguished achievements. With a grand staircase, high-ceilinged rooms, and beauty of detail, the Library represents a palatial concept of a great library. Beautiful brickwork, elegance in carving and paneling, and a satisfying sweep in its proportions make the library the focal element it was meant to be in the stately and ordered plan which Piatt developed for the University. From the beginning the Library was planned for additions, which have been made in several stages through the years. When the first elements of the great new structure were completed, library holdings on the Urbana campus totaled about 650,000 volumes; today there are about 4,083,000 volumes, making it the greatest of the state university libraries.
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