AUSTIN, Texas, June 8 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
It is perhaps the grandest space on the campus, a place that says, now you are at a real university. And that is precisely what the builders intended.
There was a time when the heart and soul of a university - the truest expression of its commitment to learning - was its library. Naturally, this feeling has waned in the internet age, but not so long ago, a university was considered exactly as good as its library. And, true to the Texas ethos, bigger was better. A 27-story library was a play for academic world dominance.
Starting in 1934, this was the University of Texas Library. This was The University of Texas.
Almost 90 years on, any VIP or r...