Editing Cecil H. Green Library (section)

==History==
The earliest library at Stanford was in the inner quadrangle. It was housed in one large room capable of accommodating 100 readers. This was replaced in 1900 by a separate building on the outer quadrangle, named the [[Thomas Welton Stanford]] library after its major donor. This library was recognized as being too small, and a new larger library in a separate building was begun, but it was destroyed in the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]] before it could be occupied.<ref name="new building">{{cite book|last=Stanford University|title=New Building of the Stanford University Library and a History of the Library 1891-1919|url=https://archive.org/details/newbuildingstan00librgoog|quote=stanford library.|year=1919|publisher=Stanford University}}</ref>

A major new library was approved in 1913 and completed in 1919.<ref name = "new building" /> This building forms the older portion of the Green Library. In 1980, a larger annex was added and the library renamed for Cecil H. Green. The original part of the building is now known as the Bing Wing for [[Peter Bing]], who donated a substantial amount of money for fixing it after the [[1989 Loma Prieta earthquake]].