 Included in the collections were a variety of rare items, such as a page from the 1642 printing of the "Polychronicon", a 1628 book of poems written in Latin, and a 1769 bible printed by John Baskerville, among others.In February 1917, the state legislature gave the school $65,000 towards construction of a building to house the library.Oregon Agricultural College opened a new library in 1918, marking the first time that the library had its own building.