Clean carpet, light walls, rows of computers and rooms for small group study are some of the things students won’t recognize about the basement of Zimmerman Library. The reconstruction, after a serious fire in spring of 2006, will make the basement an exciting place to visit.
Although the shelving still has to be installed, boxes of journals and periodicals are being moved back to New Mexico after being cleaned in Texas. Construction should be complete in early November, and library staff will begin to re-shelve the thousands of volumes that will be available to researchers and students.
The reconstruction will provide new open offices for library staff and a large new computer classroom for students, as well as more individual spDavid Brookshire for students to work on computers. The basement will be open and ready for use at the beginning of the spring semester.
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