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Built through collections of professional and juvenile materials, the library developed alongside the College of Education and the faculty members who shaped its teaching mission. 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Alteri, Wayne State University, Purdy/Kresge Library  \nAbstract:  \nThe Education Library at Wayne State University has a long and storied history. From its beginning at the Detroit Normal School to its final merger with the general library, the Education Library has been at the heart of not only Wayne State University, but also in the development of the College of Education. This paper chronicles the history of the library, and the people who created it, from its very beginning to its final place among the volumes of Purdy/Kresge Library.  \nIntroduction  \nThe story of the early Wayne State University Library system is the story of G. Flint Purdy, library director for three decades (1936-1969) at Wayne State University, an amalgamation of various city institutions for higher education. While Purdy was certainly the impetus for a general library on campus, an “education laboratory,” which also served as a small library, had been functioning since the early years of the Detroit Normal School, precursor to the College of Education. Harriet Scott, the second principal of the Detroit Normal School, accumulated a small collection of professional materials for the student teachers. This small assemblage planted the seeds of the future education library, which continued to grow until it became one of the largest collections of educational materials in the nation. It was a collection that clearly merited its own division in the General Library – the only college in the university to do so – until budget constraints forced a divisional merger of all subjects aside from science, law, and medicine, all of which had their own library buildings by 1970.  \nA Library Begun in a Basement  \nThe history of the education library is not just one of books, curriculum guides, tests, ERIC documents, textbooks, and professional pamphlets gathered from across the nation. It is also the chronicle of the growth of a college. The Detroit Normal School, housed in a rundown building in the economically disadvantaged side of town, would grow into a College of Education that has been at the forefront of educating future teachers. These two histories are intertwined thanks to the determination of members of the Education faculty that formed the nucleus of what was to become the Education Library.  \nHarriet Scott had already gathered a small set of professional materials during her tenure at the Detroit Normal School, which was founded in 1881 and later renamed the Detroit Teachers College in 1921. When a central university was created in 1930 by the merger of the Detroit Junior College and the Detroit Teachers College, it moved into the main building of the old Central High School: Hence the name Old Main, which would later become the focal point of the newly minted Wayne University in 1934. Scott’s collection of materials moved into the basement of the library. It would be Scott’s method of using literature “to cultivate a child’s slumbering literary sense and image making power”(Hanawalt, p. 134), which would inspire future education faculty members to create a collection, particularly of juvenile materials, that was unrivaled in the nation.  \nIn 1931, when the Detroit Teachers College relocated to Old Main, three faculty members combined forces to start what they would call an “education laboratory.”Dr. Gertha Williams (Educational Psychology), Mrs. Lois Place  \n(Library Science), and Miss Eloise Ramsey (English Education) all recognized the need for functional classrooms in a library-like setting that would provide budding teachers with the practice materials they needed to teach children to read. All books from their three departments were moved to a basement classroom in Old Main.“The three instructors held their classes in this room and shared responsibility for the care and circulation of the books”  \n(“Functional Library,” p. 158) . 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