Welcome Back Students
It's been a hectic summer at the library - in spite of the fact we've had no students around! However, we think you'll see some of the reasons our summer flew by. There are major changes and these are only a small portion of what we hope you'll see when you come back in 2009! For returning students - you may remember the big plastic "bubble" that surrounded the old control room and office near the children's literature collection. These had long outlasted their usefulness and we had been planning for that area to come down for several years - and finally it happened. In spite of all the noise, dust, and general disruption the result was what we had hoped - we've gained a great deal more room. However, the plans we had for filling that space up aren't quite ready to be implemented, so rather than have a big empty area the university was kind enough to fill it up with some of the most comfortable furniture you'll come across - so the west side of