Expansion project, 1986-1996

File — Multiple Containers

Content description

Includes planning for library automation (computerized card catalog), image processing in addition to expanding the physical size of the library. The researcher will find correspondence and planning documents. Includes information on internet connectivity and the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Also included is a VHS of the new library, dated February 1995.

The newly reimagined library was opened and dedicated during the same several days as President Fred Moore's inaugation. There may be documents that relate to the library in the folders in BVU-0000 that related to Fred Moore/Administrative/Inauguration.

A photograph of a plaque naming the library as the Information Technology Center is can be found in the Photographs collection under "Information Technology Center." It lists the Board of Trustees, vice presidents, and key figures in the planning and execution of the project.

Dates

Creation: 1986-1996

Historical Note

The library expansion project was initially called the Information Technology Center because computing services were intended to be housed within the expansion. This did not ultimately happen and the library was called the Buena Vista University Library. People still referred to it as Ballou Library also, but in fact, it ceased to be the Ballou Library at that point because the Ballou family were not donors to the project.

In 2020, the library was remodeled to include the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) and computing services (often called 2FIX), and at that time, it came close to fulfilling its original intention of being the Information Technology Center.