Adams talks about growing up in North Dakota and attending college and working as a librarian in New York City. He describes campus life from1945 through the late sixties, the building of Jackson Library and his sponsorship of the Outing Club. He discusses the administrations of Chancellors Edward Kidder Graham, Jr., Walter Clinton Jackson, James Sharbrough Ferguson and Otis Arnold Singletary; the controversy arising from loaning books to students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and Bennett College and his view of some of the activities of English professor Randall Jarrell and Jim Allen, vice chancellor for student affairs. Subjects: Building of Jackson Library, closing of Walker Avenue, Chancellor Jackson, Chancellor Graham controversy, loaning books to students from NC A&T and Bennett College, James Jarrell (the first black person he hired), Randall and Mary Jarrell, Jim Allen.