Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Library opens at midnight

As construction workers scramble, librarians unsure of opening ‘until last minute’

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, October 19, 2007

Although the chaos of construction crews had ended just hours earlier, Bass Library re-opened at midnight Friday to crowds of rowdy students and a ceremonial procession depositing the first books into the newly-renovated underground library.

The library — which first opened in 1971 as the Cross Campus Library — was entirely gutted in the course of its nearly 18-month renovation, which aimed to transform the formerly barren, fluorescent-lit library from the forlorn underground cavern it once was into a 21st century study space. The new library, renamed after prominent Yale...

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