Channel: Eccles Health Sciences Library Digital Publishing

Category: Education

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Description: On October 4, 2021 the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library celebrates its 50th Anniversary. Ground broke to construct the library November 25, 1969, and was formally dedicated on October 4, 1971. Aerial construction footage from 1970 is included in between the event footage. The Groundbreaking Celebration was held on the south steps of the School of Medicine. Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton, University President James C. Fletcher, and Priscilla M. Mayden spoke while Nancy Eccles Hayward, Spencer F. Eccles, and Hope Fox Eccles took the first ceremonial shovel digs. The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library was officially dedicated on Monday, October 4, 1971 at 11:00 a.m. on the Library Mall. The dedication was followed by a buffet, tours of the library, and a dinner honoring the Eccles family. The dedication ceremony included comments by Calvin L. Rampton, Governor of the State of Utah; a tribute to Spencer S. Eccles by Dr. Kenneth Castleton, former Vice President for Medical Affairs; and the keynote address was given by Dr. Martin M. Cummings, Director of the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Frank B. Rogers, Librarian at the University of Colorado and former director of the National Library of Medicine, gave the dinner address.