From a single room library on the the old Marion Square campus in 1842, the Daniel Library has grown to be one of the major intellectual forces on The Citadel campus. Constructed in 1960 with the generous gift of the Daniel Family of Greenville, South Carolina, the library collections today number over 340,000 volumes with impressive collections in military history and Southern history. With a staff of over twenty dedicated individuals, the Daniel Library provides top quality information service in an age when information is an essential aspect of the good life.

The Daniel Library Friends has multiple purposes:

• to maintain an organization of persons to stimulate private support of the Daniel Library through gifts, endowments and bequests;
• to further the appreciation of books, of the printed word and of freedom of access to information;
• to bring together those who share an enthusiasm for books and other materials in the collection for the library;
• to encourage a greater consciousness of the importance of the library through the community and state; and
• to support the Daniel Library in developing the collection as a source for study and research.

Membership in the Daniel Library Friends brings together individuals who believe that libraries are one of the key monuments that epitomize our culture. The library is fundamental to civilization and to American culture. Our knowledge of prior civilizations is largely the result of the preservation of the written record by libraries. Historically, we have used libraries to preserve what is important and what is original and what is good. Libraries are cultural institutions that cross barriers of race and religion and gender and have no social boundaries. The Daniel Library Friends will assure that the Citadel's library will continue to be the vigorous center of campus learning and intellectual activity that it has been in the past.