The Ruskin Library was constructed on the University campus during 1996-97 as the culmination of the first stage of a project to secure for posterity and make accessible the foremost collection of works of art on paper (1,486), diaries (29 volumes), letters (around 8000), literary manuscripts and transcripts (300), photographs and daguerreotypes (1835), printed books (over 3,500) and other material relating to Ruskin and his circle.