1947 - Wilmington College Library opened as part of collection at New Hanover High School
1950 - First card catalog received in Bear quarters
1951 - Opens in Isaac Bear Building classroom with 5,000 volumes and 55 magazines and newspapers
Hours of operation are 10:30am until 1:00pm and 2pm until 5pm, Monday through Friday
and 8:30am until 11:30 am on Saturday
Books are checked out for two week periods, over due fines are 3 cents per day.
1952 - Second classroom designated as library.
1958 - New Hanover County Public Library coordinates use of facility.
1961 - Library housed in Alderman (Administrative) Building at new College Road campus location.
It had a seating space for 200 users.
1963 - Friends of Wilmington College organized to forge important link between community and college.
1965 - Converts from Dewey Decimal classification system to Library of Congress schema.
Designated as a United States depository library for government documents.
First microfilm reader given to college.
1969 - Randall Library opens with accommodations for 800 users and approximately 150,000 volumes.
1972 - Library becomes part of SOLINET.
1975 - Receives online catalogs from OCLC.
1985 - Construction remodeling and addition doubles the capacity and changes the entrance of the building
to its current direction. (The old front opened facing College Road)
1987 - Stopped filing cards in card catalogs.
1994 - Converts to the INNOPAC system.
Librarians
1947 - Martha Cromartie (also the librarian at New Hanover High School)
1951 - Grayce McLamb
1954 - Mildred Dorsey
1962 - Elizabeth G. Freeman
1963- Marguerite F. Fogleman - acting librarian
1964 - Helen Hagan
Director of Library Services
Phil Smith
1975 - Lenox G. Cooper (Support Services)
1977- Eugene W. Huguelet
1997- Sherman Hayes
Volumes
1949 - 1300 added to existing collection
1962 - 10,000
1964 - 20,000
1971 - 80,000
1972 - 100,000
1987 - 300,000
2004 - 901, 252
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