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Overview of the UniversityNorthwestern University (NU) is located on two separate lakefront campuses. The large campus has 146 buildings on 169 acres along a mile of Lake Michigan shoreline in the north suburban city of Evanston. The Chicago campus, 12 miles south, occupies a 14-acre site just north of the downtown center of Chicago. Its buildings house the Medical, Dental, and Law Schools; part of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management; and University College. Several member hospitals of the McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University are on or adjacent to the Chicago Campus. Although the university's trustees, from the first, intended that Northwestern should be a university with a full complement of colleges, rather than simply a college of liberal arts, this development came about slowly. The school which began classes in Evanston in 1855 was in fact a college of liberal arts. A Preparatory School was added in 1856; and a College of Technology existed from 1873 to 1877, the same year the university merged with the Evanston College for Ladies. The Cumnock School of Oratory, later the School of Speech, became part of the university in 1878, and the School of Music in 1895. In 1907 the School of Engineering was established, followed by the Graduate School in 1910, the Summer School in 1914, the Medill School of Journalism in 1921, The School of Education in 1926, and the Technological Institute, replacing the School of Engineering in 1940. The development of what later became the Chicago campus began in 1870 when the university affiliated with the Chicago Medical College, followed shortly by affiliation in 1873 with the Union College of Law. The university included a College of Pharmacy from 1886 to 1917 and a Women's Medical College from 1896 until 1902. The School of Commerce, predecessor of the present Kellogg Graduate School of Management, was established in 1908; and the University College, which later became the Evening Division was added in 1933. The university maintains an extensive library system to support its programs in study and research. This system includes the main Northwestern University Library, eight branch and special libraries on the Evanston campus, and four libraries on the Chicago campus. The main Northwestern University Library building on the Evanston campus, completed in 1970, provides excellent work-study facilities. The three towers of this building, together with the adjoining Charles Deering Library, built in 1932 and renovated in 1972, contain all of the Evanston undergraduate and graduate collections in the humanities, history, and social sciences. The Music Library, the Government Publications Department, Special Collections, the Map Collection, University Archives and the Map Collection are housed in the Charles Deering Library. Located outside the main building complex are the Geology Library, Mathematics Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering. Of the four separate libraries on the Chicago campus, the three which serve the professional schools--the Archibald Church Medical Library, the Dental School Library, and the Law School Library--are independent of the university librarian's jurisdiction. The Joseph Schaffner Library, which serves the University College and the evening program of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, is a part of the main university library system.
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