Louis Round Wilson was born in the mountains of N.C. in Lenoir in 1876. No one could have known he was destined to become the most famous librarian in the whole state in the 20th century, for whom the grand old library at UNC is quite appropriately named. He’s the one that brought that library into modernity. The original building was completed in 1929, the two wings were added in 1952, and an addition to the stacks happened in 1977.... Read more