We’re less than a week shy of Winter Break, which means that soon, Hale Library will be closing to work on renovations in time for the start of the spring semester. At that point, the five floors of the library will open to the public and K-State community. The Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab will open later in spring.
As you can imagine, getting closer to completing most of the renovations means that the bulk of construction is finished and final touches, including shelving, lighting and furniture installation are currently in progress.
One exciting development is that the Great Room has been completely carpeted, as well as most of the fifth floor! The Academic Learning Center space on the fourth floor also has been carpeted.
New furniture, including workstations, has started arriving to the library; more new furniture for the upper floors is expected to arrive soon.
Shelving installation on the third and fourth floors is nearly complete and crew members are also setting up shelving in the special collections space on the fifth floor.
We are enthusiastically awaiting the delivery and installation of the rest of the new furniture and hope to share pictures in our next blog post.
We also want to wish good luck to students, faculty and the K-State community during this finals week. You’re nearly there and a well-deserved break lies on the other side!
What was the result of all the book restorations? Were most able to be recovered?
Almost there! Blessings for all for our lovely library!
Hi Karla, the books underwent a very special process to be restored and cleaned. Earlier this year, the books were moved back to Manhattan, sorted and our team began the process of moving them back into the library’s stacks. You can see a picture of filled stacks in our Building Update from October: https://blogs.k-state.edu/hale/2020/10/22/building-update-looking-spiffy/.