When Pauli Murray College opened in 2017, it had a beautiful library, but no books. College head Tina Lu was waiting for just the right collection to fill the shelves. Yesterday, the college celebrated the gift of 10,000 books from the personal library of Harold Bloom ’55PhD, the Yale professor and renowned literary critic, who died in 2019. Jeanne Bloom ’63PhD, the professor's widow (left in photo, with Lu), was on hand to cut the ribbon. "Our library has always been kind of soulless, because it has not been filled with books,” Lu said at the event. “To welcome a soul into the place is a privilege and a joy.” The gift, less than half of Bloom's complete 25,000-book collection, fills about 90 percent of the Murray library's shelf space. The books all have a bookplate commemorating the gift.
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