1926 – First professional librarian, Martha L. Gericke, was appointed. 1961 – Library moves into New State Building (now Harry S Truman Building). 1973 – The New York Times Information Bank, the first computerized information retrieval service, was installed in the Library. 1978 – The International Relations Dictionary was compiled by the Library to help find the definitions of new or obscure terms. The first edition was followed by a second and third edition. 1991 – A new electronic Online Public Access Catalog was installed. 1997 – The Library was named in honor of Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, one of the most gifted and prominent statesmen of the 20th century, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1950. 2000 – The electronic catalog was made available on the Department's I-Net Intranet. 2005 – Bunche Library merges with the Law Library.Source: Ralph J. Bunche Library History by Dan Clemmer accessed on Bunche Library Inet site, December 7, 2007'' Notes Sources Ralph J. Bunche Library Ralph Bunche Centenary 1789 establishments in New York (state) Federal depository libraries Libraries in Washington, D.C. United States Department of State Research libraries in the United States