In the southwest corner of the building extending from basement to gallery is the stack room. Here is that portion of the library of which Prof. Gillespie and others of the school are extremely proud. For there is no stack room in the country embodying equipment better suited to the protection and preservation of its treasure than this stack room of the Creighton university school of law. Tier above tier, five tiers in all, with room for the addition of two more above, the stack room rises with its shelves of books. Steel vaults and doors embedded in concrete, the kind that banks use in safeguarding their gold and securities, are used for the keeping of books, worth so much more than their weight in gold, that a comparison would be futile.
Quarters even extend underground rivaling the safety deposit vaults of banks and government mints.
It's the last word in protection. And throughout the whole of this stack room there is not so much as a single stick of wood. For all this steel, thick doors and such was not placed to safeguard against thieves, but fire and water. While there is nothing to burn in the stack room, unless one would set fire to the leaves of the books, water, should it by any chance be turned into this fireproof building, would wreak terrific damage. So those of the school of law library are taking no chances, the congressional library at Washington may be larger, but its physical equipment is no better.