UM: Bentley Library

In the GoBlueWolverine magazine, Greg Dooley of MVictors.com writes about the UM athletic department archives housed in the Bentley Historical Library, and the saga of how they came to be stored there. The article quotes Bruce Madej, the department’s sports information director, who described how the historical documents, prior to the mid-1980s, were kept in a basement that sometimes flooded: “You’ve got to remember, people never understood the need for the archival of information back then. There weren’t the ESPNs when Don Canham started. There was a whole different idea of publicity.” [Source]