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The Branford Price Millar Library is the library of Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1968, the academic library was doubled in size in 1991 and houses over 1 million volumes. The five-story building is located on the school's campus on the South Park Blocks in Downtown Portland and is the largest academic library in the Portland area. ==History== In 1959, the first PSU library building, Library East, was completed under the presidency of Branford Millar, second president of Portland State College, serving from 1959 to 1968.〔〔PSU Timeline: PSU at 50. ''The Oregonian'', February 15, 1996.〕 That library had its 1 millionth visitor in 1962 and was replaced in 1968 with the Branford P. Millar Memorial Library.〔 Portland State was known as Portland State College until 1969.〔 In August 1989, construction began on an $11 million expansion of the library that doubled the size of the facility.〔PSU library work under way. ''The Oregonian'', August 24, 1989.〕 Constructed by Wildish Building Company and designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the expansion added the curved glass wall on the east face of the building providing views of the South Park Blocks.〔〔〔Hill, Jim. PSU invites public to library dedication. ''The Oregonian'', November 2, 1991.〕 Paid for by the state of Oregon, the expansion also remodeled the existing structure.〔 The addition was completed in 1991 with a dedication ceremony held on November 3, 1991. At that time, the library contained 850,000 volumes.〔Hill, Jim. PSU invites public to alumni weekend. ''The Oregonian'', October 29, 1991.〕 In 1992, the library joined a Portland area electronic library network.〔Portland librarians learn electronic library network. ''The Oregonian'', November 24, 1992.〕 A former library employee was convicted of embezzling more than $200,000 from the library in 1997.〔Trujillo, Laura. PSU retiree draws work release, restitution for embezzlement. ''The Oregonian'', September 23, 1997.〕 Millar Library was remodeled in 2001 at a cost of $2.8 million to create a learning center, technology upgrades, and new furnishings.〔Scopel, Lee. Research and learning center under construction at PSU. ''Daily Journal of Commerce'', July 17, 2001.〕 Funds came from private donations, the state, and the federal government.〔 The library launched the Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library in 2005 to contain land use planning documents created in Oregon.〔Lai, Smyth A. and Voros, Kimberly. “Capturing the past and planning for the future: building a digital library for Oregon's Sustainable Community; Report”. ''Environments'', August 1, 2007, Pg. 45(12) Vol. 35 No. 1 ISSN: 0711-6780.〕 Until 2007, Millar Library served as the state’s Regional Federal Depository Library when it became one of four libraries sharing the collection.〔(Federal Government Information. ) Oregon State Library. Retrieved on June 7, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Branford Price Millar Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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