Williams Hall, Illinois State University

Illinois · United States · School

Angie Milner was the university's first librarian. They named the new library after her, and she appears to have stayed in the old one.

Williams Hall at Illinois State University in Normal was the university's first library. Angie Milner was its first librarian.

When the university expanded it built a new library and named it Milner Library, in her honour. By every account she was not moved by the gesture and preferred to stay where she had worked.

What staff and visitors report in Williams Hall concentrates on one room: the small space where rare and valuable books are still kept. Footsteps are heard in it.

That is a fitting detail. Of everything in a library, the rare books room is the part a librarian of her generation would have considered her personal responsibility, and it is the only part of the original building still doing the job it was built for.

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Williams Hall, Illinois State University is in Illinois, United States.