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About the Lenhardt Library

 

The Woman's Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society established the Library in 1951. In 1959 it contained 584 volumes. With the opening of the Chicago Botanic Garden and its Education Center in 1976, the Library's growing collection of 6,000 books moved to a new facility to better meet the needs of its users.

Today the collections of the Lenhardt Library hold approximately 28,000 titles including 22,000 books; more than 300 currently received periodical titles; 670 noncurrent and out-of-print periodical titles; 600 videos and DVDs; 10,000 slides; 1,000 nursery catalogs; 3,000 rare books and periodicals; and the archives of the Chicago Horticultural Society.