McDonald Library

The makerspace is a creative, dynamic space where people invent, build, and learn. Through a generous grant from SWON and the Xavier University Women of Excellence, the library opened the first academic makerspace in the area in the spring of 2016. With all sorts of technology and tools including 3D printers, 3D scanners, a laser etcher, vinyl cutter, sewing machine, Raspberry Pis, Ozobots, Spheros, and more, students, faculty, and staff can make and create.

Xavier’s Conaton Learning Commons opens adjacent to the McDonald Library.

Xavier Library purchases 30 wireless laptops for student use; the new Xavier Library webpage is created.

Xavier Library experiments with a self-checkout machine.

Xavier Library gets a fully equipped Electronic Instruction Room with 23 computer workstations; Email reference service initiated at Xavier.

The library installs 40 Computer workstations.

Xavier Library joins OhioLink and the Library establishes a webpage.

Library hosted award-winning mystery writers Carolyn Hart and Joan Hess for the Library Garden Series: Explorations in Art and Thought.

Barcoding the library's collections allowed Xavier patrons to quickly checkout books using scanned barcodes.

Xavier Library acquires first CD-ROM databases.

Rental typewriters are made available.

The University Archives collection established in the McDonald Library by Father Lee Bennish.

The Dewey Decimal System at Xavier is phased out in favor of Library of Congress Classification.

The McDonald Memorial Library, a gift of the Walter A. and George McDonald Foundation in memory of Andrew J. and Mary McDonald, was formally dedicated. This new facility provided 63,370 square feet of space and cost over $1,500,000.

McDonald Library Cornerstone placed.

The Schmidt Library Building, named in honor of Walter S. Schmidt, opened.

The Union Building, on the newly purchased Avondale campus, housed the library with over 40,000 volumes.

The first reference to a "Librarian" (Reverend John N. Poland, S.J.) appears among the "Officers and Staff" of the college in the 1894-1895 Catalogue.

Students' Library Association formed.

The Jesuits assume responsibility for the school and rename it St. Xavier College. The college reopens after renovation with a library.

Bishop Fenwick of Cincinnati opens the Athenaeum, a college dedicated to religion and liberal arts, on October 17, 1831.