[2] Dedicated in November 1909, it was constructed with a $26,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, it was operated by Margaret I.

Before the library's construction, volumes and materials had to be checked out from Patterson's personal collection.

[2] Then-University of Kentucky President Frank L. McVey was pushing for the "little college" to transform into a "true university."

[2] By the mid-1950s, however, the library was beginning to show its age and was quickly running out of room for the more than 250,000 volumes it was holding.

[2] In 1960, then-University of Kentucky President Frank G. Dickey proposed a new library but did not receive any assurance from the state's General Assembly that funding would be appropriated.

It also received a flat response from then-Director of Libraries at the university, Lawrence S. Thompson, who was more interested in developing special collections than expanding the facility.

King North became the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center.