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Show UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS jPAGEl MONDAY,APRIL 11, 1001 I Food area was included in initial SU Library plan BY TASHA WILLIAMS SENIOR STAFF WRITER dfi.Cedar City Institute of ~ Obstetrics O Gynecology O Infertility O Gynecologic Suxgery Accepting New Patients July 15th. 150 East Altamira Avenue 865-9500 Three weeks ago a coffee shop was added to the library at Salt Lake Community College, but there are no plans to add a food area to SUU's library even though it was considered in the initial plans. On April 1, SLCC's Markosian Library added a coffee kiosk complete with coffee, iced drinks, doughnuts, magazines and newspapers. Larry Dorrell, SLCC library director, said he's had nothing but positive comments about the facility. Diana Graff, dean of library services at SUU, said that because of other prioritized facilities inside the library- such as a copy center and study space- the food area was eventually decided against. A food area was originally part of the plans for the Gerald R. Sherratt Library between the first and second doors of the entrance way. It would have included vending machines and tables where students could eat and study at the same time, Graff said. "Quite frankly, at this university it takes 30 years to get new carpet in your building, and we need to protect ours, " Graff said. "Food is hard on buildings ...we just decided as a group, even though we wanted it, that we had about three priorities over that." Dorrell said it's his first year at the library, and he encouraged the center at SLCC. "It's something I told them they ought to have," Dorrell said. "We're hoping it'll create an atmosphere we don't have." He said the center is separated from the student lab by an elevator and is isolated from the quiet study floors. The coffee shop also doesn't grind any coffee beans, he said, because it would make considerable noise. Graff said including food centers in libraries, especially those that model Barnes and Noble and Borders bookstores, is a rising trend. She said it was simply a matter of priorities to leave the facility out at SUU, especially since the Sharwan Smith Center is so close to the Library. "If we didn't have a good student center, I think that was something we may have considered," Graff said. She said the noise and the mess was also discussed, but since there were other things that were left out of the Library, a food center just wasn't plausible. She said she even eats when she studies and it would have been her preference to have a food area in the Library, but she's glad it wasn't included. "I'd like students to know we considered it," Graff said. An article in SLCC's student newspaper, the Globe, said the coffee kiosk at SLCC also has a working "barista" or a coffee artist, an entertainer to some degree. UNLV has a coffee shop that was added last spring, Graff said, but it is separate from the library and could run without the library being open. Raymond Daoust, reference librarian at the University of Utah's Marriott Library, hopes to have the funding available within the next two or three years to install a similar facility there. Colby Baker (left), a junior theatre arts major from Las Vegas, and Brent lhler, a senior theatre arts major from Centerville, Utah, choreograph a sword fight for the celebration of Shakespeare's birthday. The bard was born April 23, but a celebration for area elementary school students will take place today and tomorrow. |