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"Like most intricate
and eldering organizations,
universities are not short on
symbols.
The
president is one of them,
at least at times. Athletic teams are another.
All our
buildings,
at least our old ones,
are also symbolic.
The library is,
however, a special symbol.
It touches the heart of our work and our being
more directly than any other good
the university proffers.
Unlike our other symbols,
the library lasts.
Games end, buildings and
presidents 'crumble, are extended,
are removed, destroyed, restored,' but
books go on forever."
The Rev.
Timothy S. Healy, S.J.,
President of Georgetown University
November 20, 1983
from An Address Given on the Occasion
of the Presentation of the One Millionth Volume
to the Main Campus Libraries
of Georgetown University
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