Texas Tech University. Library

The Office of Library Development is a unit within the Texas Tech University's Library system. It handles outreach to donors, raises funds, and is responsible for reviewing and submitting all grant proposals for the Library. The development officer is a liason between the Library and Texas Tech's Development Office.

The first library, with approximately 11,000 books and pamphlets according to Tech's 1925-26 catalog, was located on the main floor in a room in the west wing of the Administration Building and was opened in 1925 with Elizabeth Howard West as its first librarian. Accredited to Elizabeth West's "awareness of the advantages in the Library of Congress Classification for an academic library" from the time spent working at the Library of Congress, the Texas Tech Library has used the Library of Congress Classification from its beginning. Miss West has also been credited with giving the name La Ventana, "the window," to the Tech annual.

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