Library Study Rooms

Reservations Locations Opening the Rooms Usage Policies Bost & Cobb Rooms

Reservations

• Reservations can be made at the Circulation Desk: 405-744-6812
• The study rooms are available for use on a first-come, first-served basis. The Library has several study rooms available, so reservations are encouraged. Your OSU ID is required to place a reservation.
• Individuals or groups may have one or two reservations on file at a time.
• Reservations will be held until 15 minutes after the beginning of the time period. At that time, the room may be reassigned.

Study Room Locations

• First Floor: 3 rooms on the north-east; 4 rooms on the north-west.
• Second Floor: 1 room on the east; 1 room on the west.

Opening the Rooms

• The key to a study room must be checked out at the Circulation Desk on the first floor immediately prior to use of the room.
• When finished with the room, the person responsible for the room must make sure the room is in good condition and return the key to the Circulation Desk on the first floor.
• Before a study room is opened, the person requesting to use the room signs a registration form. The person signing the request to use the room is responsible for maintaining security of the room during its use.

Persons using rooms must agree…

• to keep the volume of conversations or presentations confined to the room,
• not to handle the items exhibited on the walls,
• to keep their feet off the furniture,
• not to bring tobacco in any form into these rooms, and
• to occupy the room for the complete duration of the reservation. Rooms left unoccupied will be placed on the available list for use.

Individuals or groups who do not comply with these guidelines or engage in activity that results in damage to these facilities, may be denied further use of them.

Bost & Cobb Rooms

Jessie Thatcher Bost

In 1897 Jessie Thatcher became the first woman to graduate from Oklahoma A&M College. She received a bachelor’s degree with the second graduating class.

After graduation, she taught in Stillwater schools until her marriage to Henry A. Bost in 1902. The young couple lived in Stillwater before moving to Alva. During the ensuing years, Mrs. Bost and her husband raised a family in Alva and Cleveland. She continued to teach school and, until her death in 1963, was active in community affairs as well as in those of her alma mater.

The Jessie Thatcher Bost Room was established by her son, Armon H. Bost, in 1991.

H. Louise Cobb

Dedicated in October 1994, the H. Louise Cobb Room is a permanent tribute to a founding member of the Executive Board of the Friends of the OSU Library.

H. Louise (Boyer) Cobb graduated from Oklahoma A&M College in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in home economics. She was a charter member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority and in 1948 served as its chapter president.

Mrs. Cobb, who died in 1992, was the wife of Mr. Ed Cobb, chief executive officer of Toklan Oil and Gas Company of Tulsa. Mr. Cobb and their three children donated funds to remodel the room and established a $100,000 endowment for the H. Louise Cobb and the Friends of the OSU Library Speakers Series.

Dean & Carol Stringer

Long-time Library supporters, Dean and Carol Stringer were the first donors to endow one of the 2004 group study rooms on the first floor of the Edmon Low Library.

Dean Stringer, President of the Friends of the OSU Library, said “Carol and I are pleased to make this gift. The study rooms improve the OSU Library and should be of particular benefit to students. What a perfect cause!”

Tompkins-McCollom

Like many donors, a love of libraries inspired Katherine McCollom to endow a group study room at the OSU Library. “A library has always been a special place for me. Everywhere I’ve been, I have always enjoyed a library.”

Once an OSU student herself, Katherine McCollom decided to help today’s students by endowing one of the Library’s new group study rooms.

The room is named the Tompkins-McCollom Study Room. McCollom chose to honor both her parents and her husband with the naming of the room. “The Tompkins is for my mother and father; the McCollom is my husband.”

The Tompkins-McCollom Study Room is the second of 2004 study rooms to be endowed.

Four group study rooms are still available as naming opportunties for donors.
Contact Library Development at 405-744-6323 for details.

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