Student volunteers 1969: back row, L-R: Sharon Herout, Linda Johnston, Lydia Ivashczenko. Front row: Debbie Auckland, Kathy Kellington, Debbie Fletcher, Kristin Dorotkiewicz, Judy Lefevre. Kneeling: Bob Taylor.

Back row, L-R: Denise Mazzei, Shirley Dyck (librarian), Vera Thorstad (librarian). Middle: Edna Clark, Debbie Rambeck, Jean Backlund (librarian), Sandra Foster, Joel Shortt. Front row: Sharon Clark, unknown, unknown, Peggy Fletcher, unknown.

SE winter view of the present library built in 1967 and located in Lovett Park. This was taken before the ramp was built, placing the date as 1967-68.

Alice Scrivens speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at RCL. Alice Scrivens was representing the Rosetown Library Board. Also in picture, Frank Glass at left and Ralph Wiseman.

Doug Coulter providing the entertainment at the 50th anniversary celebration of Rosetown Library.

L-R: Frank Glass, Ralph Wiseman, Agnes Wickett at mic. At 50th anniversary celebration in Rosetown Library.

L-R: Pat Jerome, 3 unknown.

Perhaps a skit or a reading. L-R: 3 unknown, Jean Backlund, Ralph Wiseman, Jean Johnston, unknown.

Members of the Rosetown Kinsmen Club and members of the Library Board are shown holding a large cheque for $1,000 representing a donation to the library. The cheque is dated Dec. 31, 1966. L-R: Ken Cave and Lysle Spence, Kinsmen members; Marjorie Wiseman, Library Board; Signa Gilchrist, Librarian; Margaret Clarke, Library Board; Nat Wyshynski, Kinsmen; Norma Whitfield, Library Board, Louis Sparks, Kinsmen.

Ralph Wiseman of the Library Board with children riding a float in the parade in 1981.

Image of the Moose Jaw Public Library. There is a man standing on the front steps of the library and a horse-drawn vehicle driving up to the front door.

F.H. Auld, University Chancellor, speaks before unveiling a portrait of Walter C. Murray, first University President.

Bio/Historical Note: Though the first recorded withdrawal from the University Library occurred in October 1909, nearly five decades passed before the Library had its own building. The early collection was housed either on the second floor of the College Building (later known as the Administration Building) or was scattered among a number of small departmental libraries. Plans for a new library building in the late 1920s were ended by the start of the Great Depression; but a dramatically reduced acquisitions budget was offset by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation in 1933. In 1943 the University hired its first professional Librarian. A combination of provincial grants and University fundraising financed the construction of the Murray Memorial Library. The library was named after the University’s first President, Walter C. Murray. Designed by noted Regina architect Kioshi Izumi working under H.K. Black, Architect, it marked a change in campus architecture away from the more angular and elaborate Collegiate Gothic style to that of the less expensive cube. Building materials included granite at the entrance and Tyndall stone as a wall cladding and window trim. In addition to the library, the building housed the College of Law, an office of the Provincial Archives and a 105-seat lecture theatre equipped with the latest in audiovisual teaching aids. The most dramatic transformation took place between 1970 and 1976 when a six floor south wing was added along with an extensive renovation of the 1956 structure. Designed by BLM, Regina, the south wing was unlike any other building on campus. Clad in Tyndall stone panels made to look like concrete (through a "bush hammered" finish), the grey almost windowless building is industrial and utilitarian in appearance. The University's master plan required buildings in the core of campus to be clad in stone. However, the "bush hammered" finish was used since the Library addition was built during a period that saw the flowering of "Brutalist" Architecture, so called because of the wide use of exposed concrete. The new (south) wing, originally called the Main Library, was officially opened on 17 May 1974, and also became the home of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Graduate Studies and the University Archives.

Interior of the new Library in the Thorvaldson Building, showing work desks and bookshelves.