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1971–1981
The naming: On 25 January 1971 the board renamed the genealogy collection the Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection, in honor of the man who had built it; Reynolds called it "one of the five best in the country." The department had followed the library into temporary quarters in the Purdue Building in 1967 and back into the new Main in 1968, and by 1976 it held more than 6,000 square feet on the second floor's northeast side.
The 1981 move: For the new addition the department closed on 1 December 1980; some 125 volunteers moved it in a single day, and it reopened on 19 January 1981 occupying the addition's entire second floor, its seating rising from 54 to 96 and its microfilm holdings reaching 30,000 rolls, including the complete United States census from 1790 to 1900. At the Main Library today the department operates as the Fred J. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department, branded to the public as The Genealogy Center; the date the shorter name was adopted is not established in the sources used.
Sources:
- Slater-Putt, Beyond Books (1995), ch. 3 — the 1971 renaming, the 1976 quarters and the 1980–81 move.