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Theirs to Build: A brief history of the Albert S. Cook Library

April 8, 2019July 28, 2020Knox, FelicityTowson University History

We want students and faculty to look on their library with pleasure, and to know that it is theirs to build and to use with our help. -Dorothy Reeder, 1955 Report from the Librarian. When Towson University’s predecessor, the Maryland State Normal School, opened its doors in 1866, little thought had gone into the creation

Sustaining Delight: Isabel Wilner, Librarian and Poet

April 10, 2017July 28, 2020Knox, FelicityTowson University History

For over 80 years, when the children who attended the campus elementary school visited the library, they worked with the college librarian. They read and were read to, learned how to find items using the catalog, and were allowed to check out books from a curated children’s collection. But in 1949, the Lida Lee Tall School

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Theirs to Build: A brief history of the Albert S. Cook Library

Sustaining Delight: Isabel Wilner, Librarian and Poet