The University of Chicago is building a new $80 million library with a huge glass dome.

The dome stands 35 feet tall, and it's the only thing that will be visible on the new library. The rest of it, where the books and materials are stored, will be deep underground. A computerized crane will retrieve the items.

Judith Nadler is the library director.

NADLER: This building, I believe, is extraordinarily beautiful and conveys the vision of a library of the future that has everything the library of the past has had, but much more.

The new library will hold 3.5 million volumes. That means the university can keep its entire collection on campus. Chicago architect Helmut Jahn designed the building.

The university is naming it after the head of Morningstar Inc. Joe Mansueto  and his wife, Rika, who donated $25 million for the library.