From Deseret News archives:
LDS Church breaks ground for library
"The church grows and the volume of the records continues to increase in large numbers. I don't know if we'll ever build a building large enough to hold them all. But this is an attempt to do this," said President Gordon B. Hinckley, joking that the current history library in the Church Office Building has "accumulated so much that if we don't move it out of there, it will break the floors."
He said the groundbreaking marked "a day of history in the history of the church" and added that the state-of-the art facility will be "very interesting and magnificent."
The five-floor, 250,000-square-foot building will be located on the northeast corner of the intersection of North Temple and Main streets. It will house the growing historical collection, which currently includes 3.5 million manuscripts, 210,000 publications, 100,000 photographs and 50,000 audiovisual productions.
The 95-year-old church leader offered a dedicatory prayer and used a small shovel, crafted by Brigham Young and used when LDS leader G. Homer Durham dedicated the Church History Museum, to dig into a large dirt pile. After the gesture, President Hinckley, President Monson and President James E. Faust, second counselor in the First Presidency, took "the real thing," large gold-colored shovels, to turn over the dirt and invited the audience to take part in the groundbreaking.
Currently, a parking lot occupies the site, east of the Conference Center. Salt Lake-based MHTN architects will design the library to visually complement the Conference Center. Construction is expected to begin later this year, with completion scheduled for late 2007.
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