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With two million visitors a year, the Langson Library, along with the Science Library, the Grunigen Medical Library, and the Gateway Study Center, provide a safe haven for more than 2.2 million volumes and subscriptions to 35,000 journals in electronic and print formats. It also houses historically and culturally valuable archived collections including the UCI Libraries’ Southeast Asian Archive (SEAA) which was established in 1987 to document the lives of refugees and immigrants who settled in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

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Langson Library Undergoes a Facelift

One of the original buildings on the UCI campus, Langson Library, was showing its age. The building's exterior had not undergone any significant renovation in its forty-year life. This renovation consisted of fresh elastomeric coating which makes the exterior look "fresh and new" explained project manager Kyoko Adachi.

Formerly called the Main Library, the building is named for Jack Langson, a Newport Beach entrepreneur and donor of a leadership gift to the library. Commenting on his gift to the University, Langson, president and owner of Investment Building Group, said that …” improving the library is strengthening the intellectual heart of the university.”