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Fall 1997, Vol. 60, No. 1

Lindell Family Library dedication to be Oct. 31-Nov. 2

Library named for donors Jean and James Lindell

By Dan Benson
News Service Director

As the opening of the James G. Lindell Family Library fast approaches, event plans for the library dedication weekend are also being finalized.

Regular library hours in the new building resume Sept. 1, and the dedication weekend is set for Oct. 31-Nov. 2.

The highlight of the weekend will be the formal dedication ceremony, which will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 2. The ceremony will begin in Hoversten Chapel and conclude at the new building. A reception will follow. All alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of Augsburg are invited and encouraged to attend.

The weekend's activities will also include an information fair on Friday and Saturday, an Internet scavenger hunt for Augsburg students and a reunion for former library student workers. Former student workers interested in attending can write to Elaine Cline at C.B. 314, Augsburg College, or send e-mail to cline@augsburg.edu.

Other events will take place throughout the fall. In the planning stages are a movie marathon, information fairs, visits from select Minnesota authors, interactive tours and an Oct. 21 parents dinner.

The theme for the library dedication weekend will center on "connecting Augsburg's past, present and future," said Becky Bunkers, events coordinator in the Augsburg facilities office.

Elaine Cline, director of the library, said that alumni are welcome to visit the new facility at any time and that special library cards will be available so that alums can enjoy borrowing privileges.

The new library bears the name Lindell thanks to a major contribution from Jean and James G. Lindell of Woodbury, Minn. This gift brings the fundraising for the $15 million facility closer to realization.

"As an alumnus, the College's first non-Lutheran regent and a major donor, Jim Lindell has been one of the best friends Augsburg has ever had," said retired Augsburg President Charles S. Anderson. "We are absolutely delighted that our new library will carry the Lindell name. Nothing could be more fitting."

Eight members of the Lindell family have attended Augsburg.

Construction of the new building took less than 15 months, and it took just four days for Gazda Mayflower-a professional moving company-to physically move the collection of books from the George Sverdrup Library to the Lindell Family Library.

The Sverdrup Library closed on July 31 after 42 years of service as Augsburg's library. The building will now be known as Sverdrup Hall, and it will house temporary offices and classrooms on the main floor. The computer science department will move into the second floor of Sverdrup Hall. Eventually, a link will connect the Lindell and Sverdrup buildings, at which time the main floor of Sverdrup Hall will be converted to a student lounge.