Harrye B. Lyons is the first design librarian

Mrs. Harrye Black Lyons serves as the first design librarian from 1947 to 1968. The Design Library inhabits the space that was the original reading room of D. H. Hill Jr. Library. The library was renamed the Harrye B. Lyons design library shortly after her death in 1968 by Dean Kamphoefner.