Up to our Necks in New Library Planning!

The excitement of receiving 48 million dollars to build a new library has sunk in, and so has the reality of the difficult work of predicting future student learning styles and trends in information and libraries. The good news is that there is progress to report.

Last summer the Library put together an Internal Library Building Committee (ILBC) who, along with members of the faculty and administration, conducted a number of site visits to new libraries and began developing a program statement for UTC’s new library building. Information about the site visits, as well as meeting minutes from the ILBC are available at www.library.utc.edu/building. Then, in the Fall semester, Chancellor Roger Brown put together a super university-wide committee to conceptualize, plan, and draft the Program Statement for the new library and all it contains. Information about the New Library Program Statement Committee, including membership, minutes, and other supporting documents is available at www.library.utc.edu/building.

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Project Funded: July 2007

Target Completion Date: July 2011

Project Dollar Amount: 48 million

Estimated Gross Sq. Ft.: 180,000

Estimated Usable Sq. Ft.: 126,000 – 144,000

Site Location: Corner of Vine and Douglas, adjacent to Chamberlain Field

Project Architect: Derthick, Henley & Wilkerson / Artech (Joint Venture)

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The UTC Art Department has teamed up with the library to display a unique Alexander Calder tapestry on loan from the collection of Nancy Bowen Wiggins. The piece, made of dyed and woven jute is entitled, “Zebra,” and was created in 1975, a year before Calder’s death.

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Announcing a New Service Just for UTC Faculty

Do you need a journal article from Lupton Library’s paper or microform collections, but you don’t have time to come over and print or copy it yourself? Simply submit your request at http://illiad.lib.utc.edu/ and library staff will scan and post these articles directly to your ILLiad account. You’ll be notified by email when your articles are ready. Sweet!

For questions or concerns, contact the ILL department at 423-4739 or email Melanie-Dunn@utc.edu or Andrea-Schurr@utc.edu.

Lupton Library has 8,869 DVD and VHS Tapes available for you to check out! We thought you might want to know what your fellow Mocs are watching, so here’s a list of our 10 most popular videos from last semester:

1. The Illusionist
2. Babel
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Munich
5. A History of Violence
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. Apocalypto
8. Crash
9. Children of Men
10. Notes on a Scandal

Don’t forget, we also have 2,263 Compact Discs, 629 AudioBooks, and 380,000 Books any of which you can check out and take home this weekend for your listening/reading pleasure.