The Joseph Regenstein Library was built on the site of the original Stagg Field. (Photography by Tom Rossiter)
The Reg at 50
UChicago’s beloved library, by the numbers.
$10
Amount, in millions, of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation’s 1965 gift for a new campus library
10.31.70
Date of the Joseph Regenstein Library’s dedication
2
Number of volumes, in millions, originally housed in Regenstein
4.5
Number of volumes, in millions, now housed there
1976
Year the library introduced an online circulation system
5.18.79
First appearance of “the Reg” in the Maroon
1981
Year the Maroon dubbed “Off to the Reg!” the most overused campus cliché
4
Best floor of the Regenstein*
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