1. Library remodeling project: A Learning Commons for ASU
COMING IN 2010
                                                              
                                
Library remodeling project: A Learning Commons for ASU
Third Floor Concerns
Dr. Maurice G. Fortin
5 November 2009

2. Refocusing the Library to become the heart of learning on campus
THE ASU LIBRARY IN FALL 2010
Refocusing the Library to become the heart of learning on campus

3. A LEARNING COMMONS
What is a Learning Commons?

4. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION
Goal: to minimize the impacts
Closing Library’s First Floor
Work begins 14 December 2009
Expected completion is end of July 2010

5. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION
Access
Front Porch Elevator: 2nd Floor Landing
Between Floors (2nd & Basement)
Internal Elevator
Central Stairwell
Third Floor – same as now

6. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION
Relocation of Services:
Circulation
Reference
ILL
Library Instruction

7. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION: 2nd Floor

8. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION: Basement

9. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION
Noisy: M-F (7 am to 6 pm?)
Temporary “Outages”
Lack of study space
Fewer PCs & other equipment
Frayed nerves?

10. COPING WITH CONSTRUCTION
Hours of Operation:
2010 Spring Semester Summer Terms
M-Th: 7:30 am to midnight 7:30 am to 11:00 pm
F: 7:30 am to 6:00 pm 7:30 am to 6:00 pm
Sa: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Su: 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UNEXPECTED/EXPECTED CLOSURES

11. THE ASU LIBRARY IN FALL 2010

12. THE ASU LIBRARY IN FALL 2010

13. THE ASU LIBRARY IN FALL 2010

14. THE ASU LIBRARY
THANKS!!
Any Questions?