Editing Cecil H. Green Library

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The '''Cecil H. Green Library''' (commonly known as '''Green Library''') is the main library on the [[Stanford University]] campus and is part of the [[Stanford University Libraries|SUL]] system. It is named for [[Cecil H. Green]].

Green Library houses 4 million volumes, most of which are related to the [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]]. Libraries elsewhere on campus cover specialized areas such as Business, Law, Art, Medicine, or Engineering.

Books from Green and other Stanford libraries are being scanned as part of the [[Google Books]] project.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?pagewanted=1|title=Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database|date=December 14, 2004|work=New York Times|accessdate=24 August 2012}}</ref>

==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]].

==Design==
Green Library's design was a significant and early departure from the architectural style of Stanford's Main Quad. [[Jane Stanford]] held a design competition for the new library and chose the submission of Joseph MacKay, a San Francisco art glassmaker, which drew more on [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] style than the existing buildings. Several stories tall, this original construction was refurbished in 1999 and now forms the main halls and rotunda of the library.<ref>{{Cite web|last=University|first=© Stanford|last2=Stanford|last3=California 94305|title=History of Green Library|url=https://library.stanford.edu/green/visitor-information/history-green-library|access-date=2021-02-17|website=Stanford Libraries|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Stanford University Libraries]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://library.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040315015541/http://library.stanford.edu/depts/green/about/tours/online_tours_photos.html Online Tour of Green Library]
* [https://archive.today/20121215002450/http://infocenter.stanford.edu/ Information Center, Green Library]
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