Dr. Ray Browne and Sound Archivist Bill Schurk examining materials for the Popular Culture Library.
East exterior view of Jerome Library.
Adequate facilities and department consolidation are crucial ingredients to any academic department seeking to reach its ultimate potential. By the mid-1990s, the Departments of English and American Culture Studies lacked both of these elements. English and ACS were similarly scattered throughout…
By the mid-1960s, the burgeoning number, population, and role of academic departments on campus stimulated the construction of a series of new buildings to house these departments. Correspondingly, the Board of Trustees intended for construction of a new Education Building on campus to provide…
This one-room school is a part of the University's collection of pre-1940 educational memorabilia. The schoolhouse, built in 1875, was originally located in Huron County, southeast of Norwalk, Ohio. The building was 100 years old when it was dismantled and moved to the BGSU campus, to become a…
Ellen B. Wells, chief of special collections at Smithsonian Institution Libraries, with Dr. David Marks, director of BGSU's Browne Popular Culture Library. Wells and Marks are surveying Wells' recent donation of works by artist Maxfield Parrish.
View of the entrance to the Browne Popular Culture Library at the Jerome Library.
Men's Gymnasium The Board of Trustees of the Bowling Green Normal School originally approved construction of a Men's Gymnasium in 1927 as a response to the exponentially increasing number of male students on campus who held an interest in athletics. Over time, the Men's Gym served a variety of…
A portrait of Ethyl Blum, the school's first official librarian. The library was located in a room on the third floor of the Administration Building, now known as University Hall.
View of the north and west exterior sides of the Jerome Library building.
In 2009, BGSU announced plans to construct two new residence halls, "South Central Hall," (now called Centennial Hall) located on the site of Rodgers Quadrangle, and "Northwest Hall," to be located north of Offenhauer Towers. On October 1, 2010, Northwest Hall was designated "Falcon Heights" at a…