BCU Marks National Library Week with 50th Birthday Celebration of Campus Library

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University marked National Library Week by celebrating the 50^th birthday of the Bishop Mueller Library on Friday, April 18 with a birthday party and “Library of Congress” bingo.

Also during National Library Week, April 13-19, Briar Cliff students and staff participated in the READ Poster 2008 Contest. The winning poster will be displayed in the library.

Bishop Mueller Library was constructed on the Briar Cliff campus in 1958 and remodeled in 1993. Over the years, the library has seen many changes, including the conversion to the Library of Congress classification system, the addition of many online resources, a high-tech classroom with an audience response system and wireless access.

For more information, including Bishop Mueller Library mission and history, please visit http://www.briarcliff.edu/library/library.aspx.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states, Canada, Bosnia, Ecuador and Pakistan.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and prepared for professional success in an environment of care and compassion.