New $31.5-Million Library to Cure
Space Woes
If all goes according to plan, a new science library at the University of California/Riverside, scheduled to open August 31, will end the space problems librarians at that university have endured for more than a decade.
The new, four-story, $31.5-million, 106,000-square-foot facility will enable librarians to move the books, reference materials, and academic journals from all of the nooks and crannies where they have been stashed since the library ran out of shelf space in 1984, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
With the collections at the university's two libraries growing at a rate of 35,000 volumes or more per year, materials have had to be stored at locations throughout the school, including an underground system of steam and utility tunnels.
The new library has 1,500 terminal hookups for laptop computers, 200 permanent computer workstations, and is designed to hold 550,000 volumes.
Posted August 31, 1998.
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