From the Archives: A New Library, 26 Years Ago

Twenty-six years ago today (December 3rd, 1993), the plans for a new Law Library building were revealed to the BCLS student body via an article in the student newspaper The Alledger. 

Until 1996, the BC Law Library was housed in the Kenny-Cottle building behind Barat House (where overflow materials from O'Neill library are currently stored). Moving the library entailed constructing an entire new building, the plans for which Marc Verzani, 2L, describes in detail in his article.

Verzani does note that the plans were still subject to change in 1993.  For example, no pay phones were ever installed in the library (despite Verzani's hopes), although one was placed in a small room outside of the library front doors.  And some details have changed since the library was built, such as the change from our old copy machines to the three KIC scanning stations now on the second and third floors.  But no worries: we do indeed still have bathrooms and water fountains on every floor!

Take a look at the full article below, and check out the original issue (Volume 14, no. 4) over in our digital archive: https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger/