Dedication of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library stands as a bold statement of the continued centrality of libraries for modern culture, says Judith Nadler, Library Director and University Librarian. Yet she knows the work has just begun. “It is imperative that we take full advantage of Mansueto’s enormous potential to enable scholarship and teaching at the University of Chicago,” she says.

Now, with almost a million volumes loaded into Mansueto, the University community celebrated Tuesday, Oct. 11 the beginning of the library’s next stage. The dedication ceremony, which took place at the Harper Memorial Library Commons, featured a keynote address by Princeton professor Anthony Grafton, AB’71, AM’72, PhD’75, and the world premiere of “double helix,” a new piece by Augusta Read Thomas, the University Professor of Composition.