![UNTA_UO458-002-009-01 The card catalog was the only way to find books in the library. The catalog wasn’t put online until the 1980s and it took a large staff to keep up with it.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20160511011732im_/http://blogs.library.unt.edu/unt125/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/UNTA_U0458-002-009_01-780x300.jpg)
In 1972 the regents and President of North Texas State University dedicated the new library on campus. When construction for the new library began in July 1969 began on the site of the university’s original football field, the building was meant to be the latest in modern, modular design—a colorful, bright and open building of… Read more »