Indiana University-Indianapolis

ceremony took place on August 1, 1990. After the new library was completed, the University Archives moved from the Joseph T. Taylor Hall (formerly known as the Blake Street Library) to the lower floor of the new building. Ruth Lilly donated $2 million to create a new state-of-the-art facility for the archives and its collection. The archives subsequently became known as the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives. The Blake Street Library and 38th Street Science and Engineering Library merged into the new University Library to consolidate resources on campus.
The original design of the library was five floors and 256,000 square feet (23,800 m2) with a volume capacity of a million items. There were 1,740 study spaces, two classrooms, a 100-seat auditorium on the lower level, 641 study carrels, an individual learning center on the first floor, 42 group study rooms, 40 faculty study rooms, and two rooms for visually impaired students. The dedication ceremony took place on April 8, 1994. In 1995, IUPUI created …