Millionth Volume Web Site Timeline

Year	GMU Libraries	Around the World
1959 - 1960	GMU founded as the part of the Univ. of VA Library opens with fewer than 3,000 books and 44 periodical subscriptions	Barbie doll is introduced Dominos Pizza opens in Detroit
1961 - 1962	Library includes fewer than 8,000 books and 600 bound periodical volumes	ABC begins color telecasts Peace Corp is created
1963 - 1964	Library housed on the 2^nd floor of East Building with seating for 50 students	AT&T introduces touchtone telephones G.I. Joe introduced
1965 - 1966	Library is now open on Sundays; seating capacity increases to 74	Congress legislates warning labels for cigarette packages Star Trek premiers on NBC
1967 - 1968	New Fenwick Library building dedicated with seating for 300 and space for 60,000 volumes The cost of making copies in the Library is 10 cents	First African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall, is sworn in First class postal rate climbs to 6 cents
1969 - 1970	Library funds for new materials are less than $115,000; expects to purchase at least 8,000 new volumes	Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Concorde supersonic jet exceeds twice the speed of sound
1971 - 1972	GMU’s first departmental branch library opens in North Building for education and business administration	Soft contact lenses win FDA approval Nike, Inc., is founded
1973 - 1974	5-story addition to Fenwick Library under construction	UPC codes and electronic scanners are introduced “Streaking” becomes a popular U.S. fad
1975 - 1976	Number of visits to the library nearly 190,000	Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC Apple Computers is founded
1977 - 1978	Over 141,000 book volumes now in the Library’s collection; nearly 2,000 books borrowed through interlibrary loans; 334 computer searches of databases performed	Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, TN The movies Superman and Grease released
1979 - 1980	George Mason University acquires School of Law and its accompanying library Number of on-line searches tops 350	Walkman cassette player introduced and costs $200 Former California governor and Hollywood actor, Ronald Wilson Reagan elected President of the U.S.
1981 - 1982	Number of books circulated exceeds 100,000; Libraries proposal for an automated circulation system is approved	Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female justice of the Supreme Court Italy wins soccer’s World Cup
1983 - 1984	The Library adopts on-line computer catalogs; Bar coding of the collection begins	Cell phones are available for $3,000; service costs $150/month Springsteen’s Born in the USA and Prince’s Purple Rain are released
1985 - 1986	Harper Library at the Institute for Humane Studies becomes affiliated with George Mason University	Compact discs and players are introduced Nintendo video games debut in the U.S.
1987 - 1988	The Libraries anticipate the arrival of their copy of MicroSoft Windows and purchase a CD ROM drive Member libraries of WRLC report their first encounter with a computer “virus.”	With a death toll of 1.5 million, the Iran-Iraq war ends after 8 years
1989 - 1990	Quincy Street Station Library opens in Arlington; GMU enrollment over 19,000; On-line database resources available through dial-up services by appointment with librarians	Poland ends 40 years of Communist rule Soviet leaders agree to surrender the Communist Party’s 72 year monopoly of power; Boris Yeltsin elected president of the Russian Republic; demolition of the Berlin Wall begins
1991 - 1992	Remote access to Xlibris is also established WRLC direct borrowing privileges and ILL services are extended to undergraduates	Croatia and Slovenia declare independence from Yugoslavia After 11 years of marriage, Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate
1993 - 1994	Libraries launch their web site—the first official web site of GMU; Prince William Institute, now known as the Prince William Library, becomes GMU’s second distributed library	First Universal Suffrage Elections held in South Africa; Nelson Mandela is elected president Republicans win control of Congress for the first time in 40 years
1995 - 1996	Johnson Center Library opens; includes shelving space for 100,000 volumes	The Oklahoma City Federal Building is bombed; African-American men gather at the U.S. Capital for the “Million Man March.”
1997 - 1998	Arlington Campus’ Virginia Square Library opens measuring 10’x10’ School of Law library moves to its new building on the Arlington Campus	British scientists clone an adult sheep Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident Hong Kong sovereignty reverts to China
1999 - 2000	Nearly 15,000 book orders placed and 13,000 gift items received Over 18,000 researchers access special collections	Joe DiMaggio dies at the age of 84 Genetic researchers announce they had completely mapped the genetic code of a human chromosome
2001 - 2002	University Libraries accept their 1 Millionth Volume from Daniele C. Struppa, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; holdings include over 15,000 on-line journals, 340,000 government documents, 217,000 maps, 2 million microforms, 24,000 multimedia materials, and 400 databases.