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Shaver Engineering Library Student and Faculty Open House in November

We are having our Renovation Open House on Tuesday, November 6th from 2 PM to 6 PM. We will have video gaming, food and beverages, and drawings. Save this date! We will be posting more information around the college next week and sending out more detailed information.

Add comment October 12th, 2007

The New Look of Shaver Engineering Library

Over the summer a phrase from a song kept running through my mind. Those of you who are Trekkies will undoubtedly recognize it, “It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.” Those of you who are not into Star Trek might not recognize the first line from the Enterprise theme. But, it is so apt for our renovation - for the staff, patrons, neighbors in our building and renovation team. We have all endured the many months of changes that included asbestos abatement, extremely poor lighting, dust, shortened hours, inaccessible materials, and lots of noise. But, that is now all past and I will share with you the first pictures of our newly renovated space.

We have had complaints from some of you for the lack of photos, but May, June and July were incredibly busy for staff as the shelving came down in reference and current serials and materials had to be boxed up and stored to make room for the carpeting installation, the new shelving and furniture. Jennifer Eskew, Senior Library Technician (Shaver Engineering Library) managed this organized chaos with great finesse. She made sure materials were moved in and out on schedule, lining up folks from the UK Libraries, Surplus or FPAT as needed.

Many departments within the UK Libraries contributed to our renovation’s success - Access & Delivery, Collections & Technical Services, Research & Education, Information Technology. We could not have done it without your help. A special thanks to Susan Daole, Senior Library Technician - Education Library and Heather Petsche, Senior Library Technician - Fine Arts Library for lending us student assistants to help with this enormous undertaking. We have created a large “Thank You” poster with everyone’s name that worked on this project - from the contractors to the individuals within UK Libraries, College of Engineering, and PPD. Lynn Tilley (COE - IT) and Don Hill (PPD) were crucial to getting this project completed - thank you so much!

While contractors were installing the new lighting system, the ceiling and sprinkling systems, the library staff was busy working on moving more serials to storage. This is freeing up shelving to accomodate recently bound serials (2003-2006) that were shelved in the reference section. This project will be on-going. Christine Gearhart, Library Science Graduate Student Assistant heads up this project with team members Brandon Daniels - Lead Student Assistant and Tony Mayes - Student Assistant. We estimate that probably more than 8,000 serials have been moved to storage over the past two years.

We are so excited about our new facility - we have quiet space for grad students, team study rooms, and social space. Of course, there is a lot of nice bright light in the library, new carpeting, furniture and circulation desk. Keep watching this space as we plan more great things going forward!

A special thank you to President Todd, Provost Subbaswamy and Dean Lester for their support in helping us transform our dream into reality. A special thanks to Donn Hancher for spearheading this project.

So while I apologize for not publishing pictures this summer I think you will be surprised to see results. It is light, bright and airy. Let me know what you think. And please, stop in and see us!

Add comment September 21st, 2007

The Sky is Falling!

If Chicken Little was at the Engineering Library the past few days, he probably did yell “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” Dixon Electric has been busy over spring break taking out the old ceiling panels in the main part of the library. Their work continues this week as they install the new wiring. Next week we expect the new ceiling to be installed and hope to have light once more. Our apologies to those of you who are trying to study during this construction disruption.

Here are the latest pictures of our project -

The stacks had to be covered to protect the books from dust and grime that fell from the ceiling during the dismantling. With our low-lighting there is a defininte ambience in our library these days.

This is outside the new office looking west.

Ghosts in the library! Take the books and run!

Looking towards the stacks.

Another shot of the stacks

The temporary circulation desk

PPD is still working on the bathrooms. Stay tuned for further adventures of the Shaver Engineering Library renovation.

Add comment March 20th, 2007

New Office Space Shaping Up

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The new office and library spaces are starting to shape up. The windows in both the office and the former doorway have both been installed. The office walls have all been painted and more carpeting has been laid down in both the office and the lounge area. The ceiling project over the entranceway and the main part of the library is underway this week. There is a lot of dust and today a large dumpster was completely filled with tiles.

This is actually our former entrance! They put the window in and we were surprised to discover window panes embedded between the glass.

This view is looking towards the outside of the new office. The leather chairs are from the UK Faculty Club which is just beginning a renovation of its own. We are sure our students will love these leather wingbacks and we will scatter them throughout the library.

This is a shot looking towards the current office.

This is looking into the new office space from the doorway. We hope to be moving into our new digs within the next few weeks.

The view from inside the new office space. Note that the middle pane has sliding glass so that our student assistants can communicate with us from the desk which will be outside this window.

The bathrooms are still works in progress - no date yet as to when they will be functional.

Add comment March 20th, 2007

Engineering Library Spring Break Hours Update

The Shaver Engineering Library will remain closed tomorrow Wednesday, March 14th. The work is still being done on the ceiling and it is too hazardous to have patrons in the library at this time. We anticipate that we may be closed the entire week while they work on the ceiling tile removal.

We apologize for this disruption in service, but we need to take advantage of spring break to take down as much of the ceiling as is possible.

If you need any items from our collection, please stop in at the office.

Thanks,

Sue

Add comment March 13th, 2007

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