The California State University board of trustees approved removing Henry Madden’s name from Fresno State’s University Library on Wednesday, following the discovery of the late university librarian’s Nazi sympathies last fall.
The trustees’ approval was required to rename the library, as the board approved the move to name it after Madden in 1980, shortly after he retired from three decades working as the university’s librarian.
“A library naming task force will be formed to review the CSU naming policy to determine the course for recognition of the library,” Fresno State said in a news release following Wednesday’s vote. “The CSU Board of Trustees will ultimately approve any name change, which may not occur for another year or more.”
