AARL |
Volume 32 Nº 2, June 2001 |
| Australian Academic & Research Libraries |
Grow with Praise of Future Ages: Creating The Baillieu Library Building 1959
James Kilpatrick
Abstract: The Baillieu Library opened as the new University Library of the University of Melbourne in March 1959 and is now the arts/humanities library. This paper discusses the significance of the Baillieu Library building. A study of the building reveals the challenges facing the university during the 1950s. The motto of the university is Postera Crescam Laude, which loosely translates as 'Grow with Praise of Future Ages'. The Baillieu Library, opened on 21 March 1959, exemplified this spirit; it was designed to grow with the university. One of the responses by the university to the demand by the federal government for an expanded and improved university system was to build one of the most up-to-date libraries of the time. The library became a symbol of an ambition to become a modern institution.
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