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[email protected]. S Construction Begins on Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library N O Shown at the September naming celebration for the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library are, left to I right, Patrick Scott, director of Rare Books and Special Collections; Harris Pastides, president of the University; Senator Hollings; Tom McNally, interim dean of libraries; and Herb Hartsook, director of South Carolina Political Collections. After many years of planning, the University The $18 million state-of-the-art Hollings Libraries’ dream of a new home for its unique and Library, which will comprise about 50,000 square T invaluable special collections will be realized soon feet of new library space on three levels, will with the construction of the Ernest F. Hollings house the University Libraries’ growing Rare Special Collections Library. Books and Special Collections, and will provide A naming ceremony for the new building, which is the first permanent home for the University’s South being erected behind the Thomas Cooper Library, was Carolina Political Collections.