 The protesters were only removed after a controversially violent assault on the building by the New York Police Department.In 1954 during the University's bicentennial and following the election in 1952 of former Columbia University president General Dwight D. Eisenhower to the US presidency, Low Library was commemorated on a postage stamp.For the University's semiquincentennial in 2004, an image of the library was placed on a pre-stamped postcard.