Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Dinand Library, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA

[LIB3652] - Dinand Library was dedicated in 1927 and named in honor of Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J., President of Holy Cross from 1911-1918 and from 1924-1927. The library wings were added in 1979 and dedicated to the memory of Joshua and Leah Hiatt and all the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The Latin inscription on the front of the library may be translated as

"That they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." (John 17.3)

Dinand Library's collection consists of books, periodicals, indexes and abstracts, newspapers, microfilm, microfiche, audio-visual and digital media in the humanities and social sciences.

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