AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
[This is the second in a three-part series on the Main Building's Life Science Library. Read Part 1 here.]
A few years ago, a marble wall in the northeast corner of the Loan Room was in need of cleaning. The facilities department was called and proceeded to remove a bulletin board that was against the wall. When workers removed the board, they found a large, recessed area with angled metal tubes 2 inches wide. On each tube was taped a tiny card with a hand-written number on it. Like archaeologists hitting the motherlode, they had uncovered the heart and soul of the library, or, more accurately, the spinal column.
This was the console where, for...