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 ((Both reports are from the Trinity College Treasurer's Records, Box 6: Real Estate - Buildings - Library - Construction, 1950-1952))
-At the same time, Watkinson Library trustees were undergoing "a long and serious search" to find another institution with which to affiliate, as their collections were deteriorating and suffering due to financial strain at the Hartford Public Library/Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Historical Society.((Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News), May 1950, p.5.)) Conversations began between the Watkinson Trustees and Trinity College. Between 1949 and 1951, Trinity College offered to clean and restore its books, then construct a new library building to permanently house the Watkinson Library collections alongside its own. After Donald B. Engley took the position of Associate Librarian at Trinity, he helped plan the move to Trinity.
+At the same time, Watkinson Library trustees were undergoing "a long and serious search" to find another institution with which to affiliate, as their collections were deteriorating and suffering due to financial strain at the Hartford Public Library/Wadsworth Atheneum and Hartford Historical Society.((Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News), May 1950, p.5.)) Conversations began between the Watkinson Trustees and Trinity College. Between 1949 and 1951, Trinity College offered to clean and restore its books, then construct a new library building to permanently house the Watkinson Library collections alongside its own. After Donald B. Engley took the position of Associate Librarian at Trinity, he helped plan the move to Trinity. "This merger of two libraries will bring together two distinguished collections to make one of the finest libraries in the entire country," Engley said. ((Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News), May 1950, p. 6.))
-By 1950, the funds were secured and construction on the Trinity Library could begin. It would be the first time in all of Trinity's history that the collections would move to a library building all their own.
+By 1950, the funds were secured and construction on the Trinity Library could begin. It would be the first time in Trinity's history that the collections would move to a library building all their own.
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 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|The History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver.
-[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/265|Trinity College Bulletin, 1963-1964 (Report of the Librarian)]] (1964).
+[[http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/265|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1963-1964 (Report of the Librarian) (1964).
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/2897|The Trinity Tripod]], 12/10/1952.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31511595|The Trinity College Bulletin (Alumni News),]] May 1950.
+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29484121|The Trinity Tripod]], 12/14/1946.
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/534|Trinity College Bulletin (Report of the Librarian)]] (1941).