Shortly after the university opened its medical school in Science Hall in 1907, two physicians, Drs. Byron Robinson and Lucy Waite, donated their libraries, a total of 750 volumes, to the nascent medical school. These books became the nucleus of a medical library collection, housed at this time within the larger University Library. In 1924, a fourthfloor room of the new Wisconsin General Hospital on University Ave. todays Medical Sciences Center was designated as the first freestanding medical library. It soon moved to the Service Memorial Institutes on Charter St. to gain more space. A trained librarian, Mrs. Paul F. Clark, ran the library on a volunteer basis. Although graced with an attractive foyer featuring exhibit cases, this location was cursed by periodic flooding in basement journal areas. In 1940, the Regents purchased the large library of William Snow Miller for $15,000. This significantly enlarged the scope of the existing medical collection. In the 1950s, Dr. Maurice Richardson began his donations of rare books and money for their purchase to the small Historical collection.

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