The two main buildings on Penn State's University Park campus, are the Pattee and Paterno libraries.

Today, there are 14 libraries at the University Park campus alone, while boasting an enormous collection of over 5.4 million volumes.

Pattee Library was built as part of a Public Works Administration-General State Authority project.

[5] In 1983, as Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was being honored for his first national championship, he gave a speech challenging the university's board of trustees to make Penn State number one in academics as well as athletics.

"[4] In 1993, he and his wife Sue, began a campaign which raised $13.75 million for the construction of a new library.

Following Paterno's death in 2012 and the release of a report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that concluded that Paterno concealed knowledge of assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse of multiple children, some called for his name to be removed from the library.