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Presently, Bizzell serves as the flagship research library in the state of Oklahoma and of the University's system of eight libraries on the Norman campus that hold a combined 5 million volumes. Bizzell also houses the University Libraries administration; the History of Science, Nichols Rare Books,
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In 1927, state officials budgeted $ 500,000 for construction of a new, three-story library. New facilities included a "treasure room" to hold rare books and special collections and separate spaces for graduate and undergraduate work. A reading room, known today as the Great Reading Room, held the
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When the university opened in 1890, the university library was located in the only campus building, which was destroyed by fire in 1903. A new library was constructed and opened in 1904, but the university's needs and collections quickly outgrew a space that was intended to last for decades. The
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appropriated $ 75,000 in 1917 to construct yet another library building that could be expanded in the future, but subsequent legislatures did not appropriate necessary funds to allow the project to move forward.
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Bass Business and Bizzell Bible Special Collections; and the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies. The University of Oklahoma Library System is a member of the
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doctrine he was given a desk in the mezzanine of this building, rather than being allowed use of the regular reading room. He appealed the segregation up to the
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bulk of the 105,000 volumes the university then owned. The new library was dedicated on February 21, 1929.
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The library is historically significant for its association with the racial desegregation court case of
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For its association with segregation and the court case overturning it, the building was declared a
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University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cleveland County, Oklahoma
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and erected in 1928 during the administration of OU's fifth president,
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Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education Historic District
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Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
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McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
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Bizzell Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Bizzell Memorial Library is located in Oklahoma
Bizzell Memorial Library is located in the United States
Norman, Oklahoma
35°12′28″N 97°26′44″W / 35.20778°N 97.44556°W / 35.20778; -97.44556
Layton Hicks & Forsyth
01000071
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Oklahoma
Collegiate Gothic
Cherokee Gothic
Layton Hicks & Forsyth
William Bennett Bizzell
Oklahoma Legislature
George Lynn Cross
William S. Banowsky
Association of Research Librarieso

George McLaurin
separate but equal
Supreme Court
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
Sweatt v. Painter
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
National Historic Landmark

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