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About the Library

1916
1916
  Cora A. Stone Memorial Library, housed in the current post office building, served the newly formed Montreat Normal School for Young Women.

    

1920
1920
 
The college developed a separate library housed in the Montreat Hotel, until the hotel burned. The collection was then moved to Anderson Auditorium.
 

1935
1935
  Gaither Hall was constructed, housing in its south wing the merged collections of the Cora A. Stone Memorial Library and Montreat College Library.
 

 

1973
1973
  A new library facility was constructed and named in honor of missionary surgeon Dr. L. Nelson Bell.

2001

2001  A major renovation of the L. Nelson Bell Library was completed. Wireless technology throughout the facility and a computer lab facilitate access to the library’s one hundred plus databases.