 In 1995, the library received a gift of 5,000 rare and antiquarian books from John H. Daniels, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland and member of the library's board of directors.The gift included the library's earliest-printed book (published in 1523) and was a major factor in the move to a new library building.The Daniels collection is stored among the library's rare books and is one of several other named collections maintained at NSLM.