About Camden-Carroll Library

Welcome!

At Camden-Carroll Library, we want to cultivate an environment that encourages your scholarly pursuits. Whether you're an MSU student, faculty or staff member, diving into an extensive research project, or a community patron looking for a good read, we're here to support those engaged in teaching, research, study, and the pursuit of knowledge.

Historic Camden-Carroll Library entrance with a stone-and-brick façade and central staircase.

A History of Camden-Carroll Library

Camden-Carroll Library—then known as Johnson Camden Library—opened January 22, 1931, after the library outgrew its space in Rader Hall.

A History of Camden-Carroll Library

The $175,000 building was designed for 1,500 students and 100,000 volumes. A four-story west wing opened in January 1965, expanding the library to 53,800 square feet. Continued growth eventually led to the Library Tower project in the 1970s.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Camden-Carroll Library, the most important intellectual resource in the academic community, is to cultivate an environment that encourages learning and scholarly exchange; to support members of the University community engaged in teaching, research, study, and the pursuit of knowledge; to prepare students for life and work in an information society; to support the intellectual and entrepreneurial efforts of those outside the immediate University community with information resources and services; to select, acquire, organize, and disseminate all forms of recorded information, from all points of view, in support of the mission of Morehead State University.

Goals

  • To cultivate an environment that encourages learning and scholarly exchange.
  • To support members of the University community engaged in teaching, research, study, and the pursuit of knowledge.
  • To prepare students for life and work in an information society.
  • To enhance human and fiscal resources to further the Library’s mission.
  • To develop and maintain cooperative relationships with other libraries and information organizations for mutually advantageous sharing of resources.
  • To select, acquire, organize, and disseminate all forms of recorded information, from all points of view, in support of the mission of Morehead State University.

Contact Us

Camden-Carroll Library

150 University Blvd.
Morehead, KY 40351 Email: ask@moreheadstate.libanswers.com
Phone:606-783-2200

 

Photography by Christopher Burton.