It took Â鶹ӰÊÓ more than half a century from its inception to build its first library. But that building has stood twice that long.
In 2012, the university celebrated the centennial of Carnegie Hall, the first library on the Forest Grove Campus. The building was funded, in part, by the generosity of Andrew Carnegie, the turn-of-the-last-century industrialist who became known as one of the most important philanthropists in the United States.
In 1905, Carnegie provided $20,000 for construction of the first library building. He challenged Pacific to raise a matching amount for continued maintenance, according to Splendid Audacity, the history of the University. It took another seven years for Pacific to meet the condition, and the library opened its doors in 1912.
The original Â鶹ӰÊÓ library was one of only three academic libraries funded by Carnegie in the West. The building now houses faculty offices for the sociology and underÂ鶹ӰÊÓ psychology departments.