Tiny FDR room is big addition to Holy Spirit Library

By Amy Gassen
April 26, 2001

Amy Gassen

by Amy Gassen

news editor

Finals week is right around the corner and students are spring cleaning the dust gathered on their schoolbooks to study for the big tests and to write the important papers. The Holy Spirit Library, nestled between Woodcrest and the Rooymans Center, is the current place to be on campus.

Every year, the library purchases new books and showcases them at an open house. Along with the open house this year, a new addition to the library as a whole was unveiled. The FDR room, constructed with a gift from an anonymous donor, was dedicated on Thursday, April 19. Father Steve Albero, campus chaplain, along with campus minister Mary Laver led a prayer service to bless the new room. The room is located on the second floor of the library on the left side of the stairwell.

The prayer service dedicating the room consisted of a reading from Scripture and the saying of the Our Father. Petitions were then said before Father Albero blessed the room with holy water.

The room was formerly used for storage and was decorated by the library staff to reflect the d

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