使命和历史 of 盖茨纪念图书馆

The purpose of 图书馆服务 is to provide essential resources and services including collections, instruction in library usage, access, facilities, and personnel to our students, faculty, and staff in support of the 教育项目.

The 盖茨纪念图书馆 is one of the most attractive academic library buildings 在这个州. The two-story Classical Revival building was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

主要是2美元.1 million addition and renovation was completed in 2004, the library now includes a 47-station open student computer lab, a quiet study carrel area, group study 区域, a periodical reading room, extensive stack 区域, individual audiovisual rooms, a multi-purpose conference room and expanded reference and access services 区域. Plenty of soft seating inside the library complements an idyllic outside fountain garden surrounded by year-around patio seating. The on-line public access catalog is available 24 hours a day on or off campus and is part of a system that automates the major library components. The library is open 60 hours and five days per week 在常规学期. Collections are developed in support of all of the college's 教育项目.

Materials are accessible in many formats, including paper, videotapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs 和互联网. Through password authentication, students and faculty have continuous access to the library's vast electronic holdings, from anywhere on or off campus. The total volume count numbers more than 60,000 and an e-book collection provides 新增4.5万册图书. The total periodical count numbers more than 30,000 subscriptions in both paper and electronic formats. Special 区域 feature a law collection, a textbook collection, a career collection, a children's collection, a Texana collection, a rare book collection and a best-seller collection.

The Gates 图书馆 is a member of AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, which provides inter-library loan services to more than 400 libraries statewide and 20,000 libraries worldwide. Other affiliations included the Consortium of Academic Libraries and Learning Resources and TexShare, which provides on-site borrowing services for Lamar-Port Arthur students and faculty at most academic libraries statewide. 学生s also may use their student ID to check out materials at the Beaumont and Orange campuses and at the Port Arthur 公共图书馆.

Historical Plaques Mounted on and Near the 图书馆

盖茨纪念图书馆

约翰WARNE "BET A MILLION" GATES (1855-1910), A NATIVE OF ILLINOIS, WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE EARLY GROWTH OF PORT ARTHUR. A PROMINENT BUSINESSMAN AND FINANCIER NOTED FOR HIS PROMOTION OF BARBED WIRE, HE BECAME A LEADER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY FOUNDED BY ARTHUR STILLWELL, THE PRESIDENT OF THE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILROAD. 盖茨 INITIALLY ATTRACTED TO THE PORT ARTHUR AREA BY THE LOCAL OIL BOOM OF THE EARLY 1900S. AS AN INVESTOR, HE FIGURED PROMINENTLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEXAS COMPANY, NOW 德士古公司.

LATER A RESIDENT OF NEW YORK, GATES MAINTAINED HIS BUSINESS AND PHILANTHROPIC INTERESTS IN PORT ARTHUR WITH THE HELP OF HIS SON CHARLES. GATE'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY INCLUDE PORT ARTHUR BUSINESS COLLEGE, ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, AND THE PLAZA HOTEL.

IN 1909 JOHN GATES SET ASIDE LAND AT THIS SITE FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY, BUT INITIAL PLANS FOR THE PROJECT WERE DISCONTINUED AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1911. 五年恢复规划 LATER WHEN IT BECAME APPARENT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE NEARBY HIGH SCHOOL COULD NOT 充分为城市服务. THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF GATE'S WIDOW DELLORA (1855-1918) AND LOCAL RESIDENTS, THIS LIBRARY WAS COMPLETED IN 1917. 第二年是 DEDICATED AND DEEDED TO THE CITY.

(1981)

盖茨纪念图书馆

约翰W. GATES (1855-1911), A NOTED FINANCIER AND PHILANTHROPIST, SET ASIDE LAND AT THIS SITE FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY. 1917年，通过
EFFORTS OF HIS WIDOW DELLORA (1855-1918), THIS CLASSICAL REVIVAL LIBRARY WAS COMPLETED. IT WAS DESIGNED BY THE NEW YORK FIRM OF
沃伦 & WESTMORE, ARCHITECTS OF SEVERAL NEW YORK LANDMARKS, INCLUDING GRAND CENTRAL 站. DEEDED TO THE CITY OF PORT ARTHUR
IN 1918, THE LIBRARY IS NOW PART OF LAMAR UNIVERSITY AT PORT ARTHUR.

RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK -- 1981

ENTERED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES

1981