Expanded Space, Expanding Services
The Library's first floor was completely renovated during the past year. New book stacks, study areas and service units now occupy an area formerly housing faculty office and classrooms. The expanded floor space permitted the rearrangement of the book collection to alleviate crowding. Approximately 89,000 books were moved to open stacks on the first floor. The new shelving should provide room for several more years of acquisitions.
Government documents and microform services were merged into one unit housing U.S. government documents in paper format as well as many U.S. and international documents, periodicals and research materials in micro-formats. A new Microform Reading Room offers more consultation space and new reader-printer machines. This facility provides improved access to these special resources.
Library Associates programs
will benefit from improvement to the Audio-Visual Learning Resource Center.
The new multi-purpose classrooms provide a more versatile environment
for lectures, discussions, audio-video presentations and receptions. The
revamped AVLRC also offers audio production booths, locations for computer
terminals, audio listening carrels, video and 16 mm film preview booths,
slide projection carrels, educational television viewing and a center
for graphic/photographic and copying services.