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The most widely recognized building of the university library is Carolina Rediviva, the " revived Carolina ", thus named in reference to Academia Carolina ( see illustration ), which held the university library from the earliest times until 1691, when it was moved to the upper floor of Gustavianum, where it miraculously survived the great city fire of 1702.

In the mid-18th century, there were plans to move it back to the Academia Carolina or a new building on the same spot.

The building was demolished in 1778 to make place for a new library, but this was never built and the area next to the cathedral where it stood is today a lawn.

The present Carolina Rediviva was built in a different place and completed in 1841.