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• 1 media/image39.png 2021-08-26T11:21:52-07:00 1927 - Construction of Wilson Library Begins 5 Under the direction of University Librarian Louis Round Wilson (1876-1979) and in response to increased enrollment, construction begins on a new, larger library, completed in 1929. It was known simply as The University Library until 1956 when it was dedicated as the Louis Round Wilson Library. plain 2021-09-02T07:15:46-07:00 01/01/1927 Under the direction of University Librarian Louis Round Wilson (1876-1979) and in response to increased enrollment, construction begins on a new, larger library, completed in 1929. It was known simply as The University Library until 1956 when it was dedicated as the Louis Round Wilson Library. The beaux-art style building was designed by architect A. C. Nash, assisted by William M. Kendall. Construction of the four-story building was funded with a $625,000 appropriation from the NC General Assembly and by donations from alumni and friends. By 1929 it housed 219,814 volumes and became the home of the North Caroliniana Collection and the Southern Historical Collection. 
  
  
  
  
  
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  Snider, William D. Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1992. 193-194.
  
  Allcott, John V. The Campus at Chapel Hill: Two Hundred Years of Architecture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1986. 68-71.
  
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  Wilson, Louis Round. The Library of the First State University.  Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Library, 1960. HathiTrust Digital Library,   https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015034742554&view=1up&seq=1.
   
• 1 media/image50.jpg 2021-08-03T10:23:47-07:00 1905 - Louis Round Wilson (1876-1979) Receives English Department's Second Ph.D. 4 The University presents its second Ph.D. in English to Louis Round Wilson. His dissertation, “Chaucer’s Relative Constructions,” was published in the first volume of Studies in Philology the next year. In 1907, Wilson returned to UNC as the University’s librarian, during which time he revolutionized the North Carolina Library System. plain 2021-09-01T08:17:43-07:00 01/01/1905 The University presents its second Ph.D. in English to Louis Round Wilson. His dissertation, “Chaucer’s Relative Constructions,” was published in the first volume of Studies in Philology the next year. In 1907, Wilson returned to UNC as the University’s librarian, spending the next 77 years advocating for and developing the North Carolina Library System. He founded the North Carolina Library Association, helped to establish the Library Science School at Carolina, the North Carolina Bureau of Extension, the University of North Carolina Press, the Southern Historical Collection, and the North Carolina Library Commission, and increased the library collections over sixfold from 38,593 volumes of books to over 235,000 volumes.
  
  
  
  
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  MacMillan, Dougald.  English at Chapel Hill: 1795-1969.  Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970. 18-19.  HathiTrust Digital Library,  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001260393&view=1up&seq=7.
  
  Weaver, Frances A. “Wilson, Louis Round.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell. U of North Carolina P, 1996. Rpt. in NCPedia, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wilson-louis-round.
  
  University Communications.  “225 Years of Tar Heel: Louis Round Wilson” in “Academics.”  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oct. 28, 2018, https://www.unc.edu/posts/2018/10/29/225-years-of-tar-heels-louis-round-wilson/.