Historic HBCU Library Slated for Modernization as National Treasure

WASHINGTON — Howard University’s historic Founders Library is now a national treasure, as named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, an organization that so far has renovated 14 of 50 preservation projects nationally and promises to help bring the venerable building into the 21^st Century with the latest technological improvements.

Representatives from the National Trust and Howard said they will work together to raise the money for the improvements and provide the expertise to transform the library, which is the home to Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, the world’s largest non-circulating collection for documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent.

Writers, researchers and historians from around the world use its facilities. Founders is the first site at a historically black college or university to be named a national treasure.

Historic HBCU Library Slated for Modernization as National Treasure. (2016, Mar). Howard University New Service