The Library at the
City Park campus will soon have its own building. There will be a groundbreaking ceremony on
Wednesday December 12th at 2pm.
The new Library will be called the Marvin E. Thames Sr. Learning
Resource Center. Marvin E. Thames Sr.
was the first president of Delgado Community College.
The new building will be built on the site
where the original Delgado Moss Memorial library stood. The Moss Memorial Library had its
groundbreaking ceremony 50 years ago in 1963. The Library was named after
Ellenora Moss a close friend of the college’s namesake Isaac Delgado. Ms Moss provided a $150,000 dollar donation
in her will so that Delgado could build its first library. Due to Ms. Moss’
generosity and funding from other sources the Moss Memorial Library was
completed in 1965. Unfortunately the
Moss Memorial Library was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.
Since the original
library building was destroyed the library has set up shop in building 10. About 22,000 print volumes are housed in
building 10. Currently the rest of the
150,000 print volumes are housed in storage at an off-campus site.
The new Learning
Resource center will be a welcomed and much needed addition to the City park
campus.
