The receipt of a £1M bequest from a former student, Janet
Gnosspelius, will enable us to remodel the ground floor of the library over the
summer, significantly improving facilities and services for students and staff.
In the Abercromby Wing there will be additional exit
turnstiles to help ease queues at busy times and a new help desk providing a
first point of contact for library users.
The area overlooking Abercromby Sq, including the former
Short Loan area, will be opened up to
provide additional social study space and a new ‘self service’ area will be
created, incorporating an automated book sorter which will improve sorting and
‘return to shelf’ times. This will also give us the opportunity to improve the
arrangements for the collection of reserved items.
The area behind Special Collections & Archives, on the
ground floor of the Grove Wing, will be transformed into a new, access
controlled, staff and research postgraduate reading room. The room will be
equipped with high quality furnishings and wi fi and there will be a number of
fixed PCs and laptop plug-in points, as well as traditional study spaces with
task lighting. A small number of lockers
will also be provided.
Work on these projects will commence on Monday 9th
July and this will necessitate the creation of a temporary entrance in the
Grove Wing as there will be no access to the Ground Floor of the Abercromby
Wing. The SJL will be closed on Saturday mornings for the duration of the project (but not during the re-sit period).
Library services will be maintained as usual throughout and further updates
will be posted here regularly. If you have any queries about the project please
contact Laura Dunn or Carol Kay.
2 comments:
We need a machine where we can access cold water to fill water bottles up just like JMU have in their LRC library.
I hope this will be take into condieration.
Two water dispensers will be installed into each library over the summer vacation period.
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