page_title: Foley Center Library
hierarchical_section_title: Foley Center Library
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of Foley Center Library
context_page_description: The Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, opened 28 years ago in 1992 and was named for alumnus Ralph E. Foley, a Superior Court judge for 34 years, and his wife, Helen Higgins Foley. They were the parents of Tom Foley, who represented the state's fifth district in Congress for thirty years, the last six as Speaker of the House.
  The building is 137,000 square feet and is made of 315,000 bricks. It contains a comprehensive collection of literary volumes and many online databases that support student research. Students check out books using their GU identification cards and have wireless internet access.
  ‘ILLiad’ is the name of Foley Center Library's Interlibrary Loan program. Students can access the system in order to retrieve articles and books that are unavailable at Gonzaga.
  To promote a student friendly study environment, Foley Center Library has different Zones where students can work. Patrons are presented with three distinct signs that signify the different types of study zones within the library. A red octagon represents quiet zones which mean silence, yellow triangles for whispering and green circles signaling talking zones.
context_section_description: The Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, opened 28 years ago in 1992 and was named for alumnus Ralph E. Foley (1900–1985), a Superior Court judge for 34 years, and his wife, Helen Higgins Foley (1901–1990). They were the parents of Tom Foley (1929–2013), who represented the state's fifth district in Congress for thirty years (1965–1995), the last six as Speaker of the House.
  The building is 137,000 square feet (12,700 m²) and is made of 315,000 bricks. It contains a comprehensive collection (300,000 books) of literary volumes and many online databases that support student research. Students check out books using their GU identification cards and have wireless internet access. 
  ‘ILLiad’ is the name of Foley Center Library's Interlibrary Loan program. Students can access the system in order to retrieve articles and books that are unavailable at Gonzaga.
  To promote a student friendly study environment, Foley Center Library has different Zones where students can work. Patrons are presented with three distinct signs that signify the different types of study zones within the library. A red octagon represents quiet zones which mean silence, yellow triangles for whispering and green circles signaling talking zones.
  It succeeded the nearby Crosby library, which opened 35 years earlier in 1957.  Both were constructed on the site of Gonzaga Stadium (1922–1949); the Foley Lawn is the northern portion of the stadium's football field.
caption: Front of Foley Center Library
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