One-Millionth Volume

The original university library was moved to the Gainesville campus in 1907 and contained 3,000 volumes housed in a one-story frame building. The UF Libraries marked its one-millionth volume in 1963 with The Great Bible of 1541 in English. Then-director Stanley West said, “The library is the fountainhead of a university and its depth increases the effectiveness of the learning process and also of the contributions to research.” 

 

1963 photo of the one-millionth-volume, The Great Bible, from 1541. Shown are English professor Charles A. Robertson, Stanley West, director of University Libraries, and J. Wayne Reitz, University of Florida president.

The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume : auctorised and apoynted by the commaundement of oure moost redoubted prynce and soueraygne Lorde, Kynge Henrye the .viii., supreme head of this his churche and realme of Englande ... / ouersene and perused ... by Cuthbert bysshop of Duresme, and Nicolas bisshop of Rochester. [London]: Printed by Edwarde Whitchurch ..., 1541. 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 39 cm. (fol.).

The fourth Great Bible, and the third with Thomas Cranmer's prologue.