D. D. Dougherty Library, staff, circa 1960, photo 2

This image shows a staff member putting books in a dumbwaiter to be taken to a different floor in D. D. Dougherty Library, built 1935, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967) in the 1960s. The library housed more than 140,000 volumes by 1967, and included a curriculum library, a juvenile library, and the Department of Library Science. It was the main library at Appalachian State until 1968, when Belk Library opened. The building also housed the Department of Military Science.

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Academic libraries

Appalachian State University

General Picture File, 2004.040, Box 3, D. D. Dougherty Library, C14.1.6.3.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

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Appalachian State Teachers College (N.C.)

D. D. Dougherty Library (1935)

1960-1969

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

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The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.

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