Brown Library is, and ought to be, the centerpiece of our academic institution. It contains and represents a “cloud of witnesses” of learning. These witnesses radiate beams of light into each classroom and lecture hall on ACU’s campus. All of our professors stand on the shoulders of those whose works sit enshrined between covers on shelves in Brown Library. The weighty shadow of the great democracy of those authors reminds professors and students alike that academic tyranny is unacceptable, and the cause of learning is furthered through integrity, responsibility, accountability and open dialogue – and by listening to the voices of the past.

Why, then, does ACU’s website marginalize Brown Library – the centerpiece of our academic institution? Surely access to the book-present members of our community should be just as easy as accessing the physically present members accessible through ACU’s online directory. Consequently, ACU should not demean Brown Library by relegating it to the bottom of ACU’s homepage, where it is invisible unless one scrolls down looking for it. Rather, it should be given a place of honor at the top of the homepage alongside the online directory.

-Wesley Dingman graduate student of theology from Abilene