William T. Young Library
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The William T. Young Library, located on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, is named for William T. Young, a prominent local businessman, horse breeder, philanthropist and alumnus of the university, who began fundraising efforts with a donation of $5 million.
The library opened on April 3, 1998, and while serving as a central library for the university's social sciences, humanities and life sciences collections, it also acts as a United States federal repository and a public library for the state of Kentucky.
The five-story library contains over 1.2 million volumes and can seat over 4,000 patrons. The building 350,000 square foot (roughly 32,500 square meter) building has six elevators and all floors are fully handicap accessible. It is built with Treuchtlingen marble mined from southern Germany. It was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, Inc. of Boston, in association with Nolan and Nolan, Louisville, and the construction cost was $58 million. Moving the books into the library shelves required over 34,560 person-hours of labor.
The library is second only to Harvard in the size of it's book endowment ($56 million as of 2000) and first among public universities.
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