1873 – AddRan Male and Female College established

1874 – Literary societies formed to collect books

1877 – Gift of 300 books by Maj. John T. Walton to Walton Literary Society

1892 – Edwin J. Toof donates 1,045 volumes, enough to establish a library

1910 – Library Association formed; a month later, fire destroys Waco campus building and all but a handful of the library’s 8,000 books are lost

1912 – Library established in Reed Hall on new Fort Worth campus; 4,000 books spill out of space within a few years

1923 – Mary Couts Burnett gifts $3 million; part of it is used to build the library, which was the first building on the east campus

1955 – William Luther collection of 1,500 tomes donated

1959 – West wing added; holdings number 330,000

1963 – Sunday hours established

1964 – Holdings pass half-million mark

1970 – Computerized circulation system installed

1983 – East wing with new entrance added

2001 – Bistro Burnett and expanded computer lab added

2002 – Information Commons established as holdings soar past 2 million