The James E. Walker Library is the campus library of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Opened in 1999 under university president James E. Walker, it replaced an older library in Todd Hall, now home to the Art Department. A four-floor, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) building, it has a capacity of 800,000 volumes.[1] However, the MTSU library already has over 900,000 volumes.[2]
Construction on the James E. Walker Library started on the 85th anniversary of the university's founding, September 11, 1996. The old Todd Library, which had been expanded to a capacity of 225,000, held almost three times that many when the new library opened.[3]