It’s no secret that despite its young life, George Mason University has achieved quite a few accomplishments. In 2002, yet another milestone was reached, this time by the libraries, which acquired their one-millionth print volume–truly an extraordinary feat given the relative youth of the university. More importantly, the symbolic millionth “volume” was a gift of rare mathematics books and autographed photographs and letters of classical musicians from the personal library of George Mason’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Daniele C. Struppa. “This is a truly significant gift for the university’s libraries,” said John G. Zenelis, University Librarian. “Gaining these rare and early imprints is even more meaningful coming from such an enthusiastic supporter of the libraries,” noted Zenelis. All the titles but one are about mathematics, primarily geometry. Struppa, who is a professor of mathematics, collected the volumes over a twenty-year period. The donated works include, Euclid, Elementorum Libri XV (1627) and Clavius, Aritmetica Prattica (1671). The most noteworthy and earliest volume in the collection is Satirae (1515) by the Roman-period satirist and poet, Juvenal. Other materials include a letter penned by Arrigo Boito, author of Mefistofele. The diverse nature of the materials will form “a collection truly reflecting the eclectic and diverse interests of Dean Struppa,” remarked Zenelis. The books and autographs will form the Daniele C. Struppa Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts in the libraries’ Special Collections & Archives department. The whole campus community is being brought into the Millionth Volume Celebration, which captures the idea of libraries as the keepers of knowledge from the past and present, while always anticipating the future. Dean Struppa’s gift of rare mathematics works clearly represents the past. Digital resources from Mason’s Center for History and New Media will be archived through the libraries, signifying the future of library collections. To represent the present and to make this a truly campus wide event, each major academic and administrative unit has contributed a contemporary volume from their field, symbolically adding the libraries’ million-first to million-twenty-first volumes, representing each major academic unit.