History
The core of the books in the M. Lynette Thompson Library was assembled by Lynette Thompson when she was chair of the Department of Classics from 1961 to 1980. Thompson taught at Florida State College for Women/Florida State University from 1942 until 1994, holding the longest tenure of any faculty member at FSU. She specialized in the poetry of Lucan and was known in the state of Florida and around the U.S. for promoting the classics. Thompson passed in 2003. The library was named in her honor in 1996 and she had the pleasure of seeing it established in its current home in Dodd Hall.