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The University's main library, named for the third president of the University. Rush Rhees was born in 1860 and died in 1939, he served as president from 1900 to 1935. In 1927, he broke ground at the former Oak Hill Country Club for construction of the River Campus. The Library was dedicated in 1930 with the other original River Campus buildings. In 1970, a major addition was added to the back of the Library. The back entrance now leads into the Information Technology Services (ITS) main computing lab.
The River Campus Libraries, Headquartered in Rush Rhees Library, holds about 2.5 million volumes and provide access to an extensive collection of electronic, multimedia, and interlibrary loan resources. In addition to Rush Rhees, the libraries include the Art and Music Library, the Chester F. Carlson Science Library (science & engineering), the Government Documents & Microtext Center, the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics Library, the Management Library, the Multimedia Center, the Physics-Optics-Astronomy (POA) Library, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, and the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation.
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Welcome to the online tour of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! We hope it whets your appetite for a personal visit to the campus. Many of the stops will give you a sense of the history and tradition of Illinois, and others show our state of the art facilities. The tour begins at the beloved heart of campus, the Main Quad. |
Welcome to the Virtual Ambassador, a virtual tour of Penn State's University Park campus. The tour has been done by the Penn State Alumni Association with the help of the Lion Ambassadors.
This tour will take about 20-30 minutes to view on a 28.8 modem. This tour takes advantage of QuickTimeVR movies, which require the QuickTime movie player and plug-in from Apple Computer. You can get the free plug-in for your browser from the QuickTime site. It also uses animated GIFs and client-side imagemaps. For optimal viewing of this tour, we recommend you use either Netscape Navigator 3.0.1 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later. (Tip: after installing QuickTime, make sure the plug-in is located in your browser’s “plug-ins” folder.)