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The Smith Center
The Dean E. Smith Student
Activities Center a.k.a. the
Dean Dome or the SAC offi
cially opened in January 1986.
(The occasion was a game against
the Duke Blue Devils, and UNC
won, 95-92.)
The Smith Center is the third
largest on-campus arena in the
country, seating 21,444 for basket
ball. It cost $33.8 million to
construct and all the funds were
private donations raised in a
campaign led by former N.C. Gov.
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles.
Since its opening, the Smith
Center has also become a popular
conceit spot. In the ,86-,87 school
year, the Smith Center hosted
several big-name artists, including
Genesis, Billy Joel and Jimmy
Buffett.
The Iibuis Round Wilson
Library, which served for 55 years
as the research library in the
humanities and social sciences at
UNC, has been dedicated ' to
special collections since the open
ing of Davis Library.
Foremost among the special
resources of the building is the
Southern Historical Collection of
eight million manuscripts.
Its Rare Book Collection con
tains special groups such as the
Hanes Collection of Incunabula,
The Louis
Round
Wilson
Library .
including the ceremonial volumes
that mark the millions in the
library's holdings. The three mil
lionth book was presented in the
fall of 1983.
The North Carolina Collection
dates to an effort begun in 1844
and today contains more than
170,000 books and pamphlets.
Louis Round Wilson, a Kenan
professor and a University librar
ian for 3 1 years, died several weeks
short of his 103rd birthday in 1979.
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