page_title: Branford Price Millar Library
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: Branford Price Millar Library / Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Branford Price Millar Library, Portland State University (2014)
context_page_description: The Branford Price Millar Library is the library of Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1968, the academic library was doubled in size in 1991 and houses over 1 million volumes. The five-story building is located on the school's campus on the South Park Blocks in Downtown Portland and is the largest academic library in the Portland area.
context_section_description: Branford Price Millar Library is housed in a six-story building on the PSU campus. The building includes a curved exterior wall covered with ceiling-to-floor windows on the eastern side of the building, wrapping around a copper beech tree planted on the site in the 1800s. Tan colored bricks are used for the other exterior walls. Inside, the library contains study rooms, a computer lab, offices, and the school's archives office in addition to the library's collections. With 194,783 square feet (18,095.9 m²) of space, the library is the largest academic library in the Portland metropolitan area and covers an entire city block.
caption: Dark Horse Comics collection
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