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Show Mew Library Completed . . . By SYLVIA KRONSTADT Chronicle Feature Writer The significance of the beauty of the new library should certainly not be undervalued, because even were it simply an exciting or controversial con-troversial piece of "sculpture", its contribution to the campus would be immense. Equally interesting and important, however, is the clean-cututility clean-cututility of the building. Foresight in planning has resulted in various "accessories" which will make the use of the structure a genuine pleasure to students, and which indeed, in-deed, make the "beauty" more significant. New Urban Center The library has been centrally placed on campus so it can be reached from any direction by a maximum walk of fifteen minutes. It has been designed so its impact will radiate equally to all directions of the campus. When the plaza in front of the library is completed, this area will become the new campus cam-pus urban center, and has been planned, therefore, on a grand scale. Ultimately it will accomodate accomo-date a great central fountain with exciting landscape work and outdoor out-door furniture. The library is approached at the main entrance, from the plaza, across bridges passing over a floating float-ing reading terrace encircling the building. Entrance is on the third level, and from there, one can go up two floors or down two floors to various sections of the library without with-out disturbing, by either noise or sight, any interior reading spaces. Layout Organization Level one, which is totally below ground level, houses service and staff functions plus science and technology stack and reader space. Level two provides the only other public entrance to the building and from its lobby one enters either science and technology areas, the library science facilities or technical tech-nical services. Level three, the general ground floor or mezzanine, is composed of a general lobby and an atrium which contains the circulation counter, the reserve book counter, reference areas and general reading read-ing space. Level four provides space for social science and humanities, with audio-visual facilities grouped around the service core. . Level five houses the special subject sub-ject areas of Western American documents and Middle East. Smoking Rooms! Throughout the library all offices, smoking rooms, typing rooms and seminar areas have been grouped around the internal service cores, leaving the areas adjacent to the exterior walls free for stacks and readers with the study areas buried in small, but open groups within the stacks. The 300,000 square foot building will accommodate 1,450,000 volumes and 2,800 readers divided into 1,540 undergraduate study stations, 1,100 graduate carrels and 160 faculty research offices. Snow-Melting Machine Such "extras" as air conditioning condition-ing and humidity control, snow-melting snow-melting equipment on the exterior stairways and special paraplegic lavatory facilities for handicapped persons have been provided. The basement walls are built so they can be knocked out easily to provide pro-vide for extensive subterranean building in the future, since the exterior design is not particularly conducive to "aditions." Of special interest are the skylights sky-lights in the atrium. The special effect of "leaf -light" is created by rows of white "flaps" which are suspended from thin rods over the skylights. In case of fire, these flaps automatically lift up and pull the smoke out of the building. Barcelona Imports Also of special value to students are two unusual facilities: the Tanner Tan-ner Room and the Auditorium. Obert C. Tanner, local businessman and University professor, has' donated don-ated magnificent flrnishing including includ-ing Barcelona imports for the Tanner Tan-ner Room and has provided a trust fund to maintain the facility "forever." "for-ever." The room can be used for receptions and entertaining important import-ant guests. The auditorium is a small, informal in-formal semi-circular room which can be used for programs, displays, exhibitions ore meetings. The new library will be opened to the public on the first day of winter quarter. |