The McHenry Library is the arts, humanities, and social sciences library of the
University of California, Santa Cruz. It was named after the founding chancellor of the university,
Dean E. McHenry Dean E. McHenry (18 October 1910 – 17 March 1998) was an American professor of political science, and the founding chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
McHenry was born in Lompoc, California north of Santa Barbara, and receive ...
. The building, designed by architect
John Carl Warnecke, was completed in 1968 and features a minimalist design intended to blend into its forest surroundings, with floor-to-ceiling glass set in coarse, granite-like concrete and exposed vertical columns suggestive of tree trunks. The building is designed around a four-story atrium surrounded entirely by glass walls. Over the last ten years the library has undergone seismic retrofit and renovations, amounting in $100 million in improvements. In fall of 2011 it fully reopened with a new café, increased study space, and special exhibit room exclusively for the Grateful Dead archives.
[Aaron Jacobsen]
"Rennovations(sic) Signify New Era for McHenry Library"
' 'Santa Cruz Patch' ' , October 1, 2011 The Global Village Café, which is located in the new wing of the library, is run by Amazon Juices and offers smoothies, sandwiches, salads, rice bowls, and a full coffee bar.
The McHenry Library is home to the archives of the anthropologist
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include '' Steps to an ...
, the rock band,
The Grateful Dead, the science fiction author,
Robert Heinlein, and the architectural photographer
Morley Baer
Morley Baer (April 5, 1916 – November 9, 1995), an American photographer and teacher, was born in Toledo, Ohio. Baer was head of the photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and known for his photographs of San Francisco's " ...
. The exhibit opened to the public on June 29, 2012.
References
External links
Photographs and architectural drawings of McHenry Library from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
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Library buildings completed in 1968
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University and college academic libraries in the United States
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