In 1932, Tompkins-McCaw Library at the Medical College of Virginia opened. Called the “college library” when the building opened, the facility featured a large reading room with windows on three sides, stacks with steel shelving and study cubicles, some of which remain in use, and five seminar rooms, used for group study.

Today’s Tompkins-McCaw is one of the top medical libraries in the nation. It has the largest medical collection in the state and on the East Coast.