William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library
Thompson Library East Atrium
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| Country | United States |
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| Type | Academic |
| Established | 1913 |
| Location | Columbus, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39°59′57″N 83°00′53″W / 39.99925°N 83.01485°WCoordinates: 39°59′57″N 83°00′53″W / 39.99925°N 83.01485°W |
| Branch of | Ohio State University Libraries |
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| Size | 1.25 million (on-site) |
| Website | Thompson Library |
The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library (commonly referred to as the Thompson Library) is the main library at Ohio State University's Columbus campus. It is the university's largest library and houses its main stacks, special collections, rare books and manuscripts, university archives, and many departmental subject libraries. The library was originally built in 1912, and was renovated in 1951, 1977, and 2009. It is named in honor of the university's fifth president, William Oxley Thompson.
The Ohio State University's University Libraries manages 15 locations on the Columbus campus, of which the Thompson Library is the largest. In addition to housing the main stacks and serving as the central research library for the entire campus, the Thompson Library is home to many of the subject libraries in the humanities and social sciences, as well as reference, special collections, rare books and manuscripts, university archives, journals, and general interest periodicals. Departmental subject libraries include literature, foreign language by region, linguistics, philosophy, religion, theater, anthropology, history, sociology, and political science. Some subject libraries, such as science and engineering, architecture, agriculture, fine arts, law, health sciences, and geology, are housed in the university's other libraries.
Of the system's 5.8 million volumes, the Thompson Library holds about 1.25 million volumes, including 250,000 special collections volumes. Additional book storage is provided by the university's off-site Book Depository.
When The Ohio State University opened in 1873, the library was located on the first floor of University Hall. In 1884, it was moved to the building's third floor, and in 1893 it was moved to the newly-constructed Orton Hall. As early as 1897, university librarians voiced their need for a dedicated library building, and this eventually resulted in the construction of the Main Library in 1910.
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