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50 Years of Geisel Library
It has been called many things — an alien spaceship , a giant mushroom , a great lantern illuminating knowledge . An early university press release described Geisel Library — then known as the Central University Library — as “ an enormous jewel of concrete and glass , held aloft by a cradle of outstretched concrete fingers .” 1960s-era Chancellor John Galbraith called the building “ an exclamation point , an audacious symbol of the fledgling campus ’ commitment to research , innovation , and above all , excellence .”
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