Photos: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Library assistants take inventory of the Press Collection in the North Reading Room of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. UCLA assumed full control of the library grounds and collection when philanthropist and bibliophile William Andrews Clark Jr. died in 1934.
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Library Assistant Derek Quezada and Manuscript and Archives Librarian Becky Fenning look for work by the 1890s illustrators Aubrey Beardsley and Charles Ricketts. The library’s particular strengths are in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde and fine printing.
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The library, run by UCLA but tucked away in the Jefferson Park neighborhood near USC, is open to the public. The 13,000-piece collection Clark donated in 1926 has since grown to more than 110,000 rare books, manuscripts and documents.
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Most scholars conduct their research in the Clark Library’s Reading Room. Claudia Kairoff, foreground, a professor at Wake Forest University, and Lewis Whitaker, a graduate student at Georgia State University, were among those utilizing the library’s resources on a recent day.
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Enclosed by a brick wall, the five-acre grounds of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library features carefully trimmed gardens and statues that invite readers to pause in their studies.
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