Answered By: MaryAlice Wade
Last Updated: Oct 23, 2024     Views: 91

There is some information on this FHSU website page:
http://www.fhsu.edu/facilities-planning/campus-buildings/Forsyth-Library/

More extensive information and photos are available in these books. NOTE: The first two are available as e-books. You can obtain The First 75 years...by placing a hold through the online catalog and then picking up the book at the library's Welcome Desk. How to place a hold.  If you are a distance student, you can obtain it through an Interlibrary Loan request.

Lighthouse on the Plains: FHSU, 1902-2002, by James Forsythe. 
A History of Fort Hays Kansas State College, 1902-1961, by L.D. Wooster
The First 75 Years: A History of Fort Hays State University, 1902-1977, by James Forsythe

Just look for "library" in the index at the back of each book to locate relevant passages.

You can see old photos of the library in the Lyman Dwight Wooster Photograph Collection, part of our Digital Collections.  Just search for "forsyth library".

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