The first floor of Zimmerman Library will reopen on Monday, June 26. This includes the circulation and reference desks, the Center for Southwest Research, the West Wing and Starbucks.
Library hours will be 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, until further notice. Interim Dean of University Libraries Fran Wilkinson says she hopes the second and third floors of Zimmerman can be reopened by early July, but no specific dates have been set.
The paging system to retrieve books on the second and third floors will continue until those floors are reopened, and most journal articles that are requested will be directly emailed to students within 24 hours.
The reconstruction of the basement level that was damaged in the fire on April 30 is scheduled to begin in July, but there is no target date for a reopening. The journals and microforms that were housed on the basement level have been sent to Texas to be cleaned and will not be available until the basement level is reopened.
Up-to-date information about library services can be found at: http://elibrary.unm.edu/ziminfo.php.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at June 21, 2006 12:56 PM