Grand Reading Room
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The first floor has a mix of large tables, comfy single-person seating and features great natural light. It can be a high-traffic area due to a heavily-used CCI printer, public computers and scanners.
The Memorabilia Area of the room, together with its adjacent reading area, has been dedicated to the love of reading and to Anna May Bell Dunlap, AB 1900, and Sue Elizabeth Dunlap Hillman, AB 1931, by the generosity of a gift from Barbara Ann Hillman, AB 1962.
Historical notes show that in 1933, the Library's scattered special collections, approximately 5000 volumes, were placed in a seminar room on the top floor of the library called the Rare Book Room. Several years, later the room was renamed for Albert M. Bender, the San Francisco bibliophile whose philanthropy benefited the rare book collections.
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