Upper levels of the infill better connect areas of the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library on Pattee Library’s second and third floors. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information. A two-story enclosed atrium - including a stairwell connecting the ground floor to the first floor, expanded elevator access and additional square footage - will improve pedestrian flow across the building.Ī ground-level corridor will connect a new Collaboration Commons encompassing the full ground floor west footprint of Pattee Library with its central ground floor, which is the location of the Donald W. Plans call for an infill of Pattee Library’s small, rectangular courtyard, the only undeveloped space remaining within the perimeter of the original Pattee Library structure and its 1966 west-side addition. “We are excited by the prospect of completing a greatly needed phase of Pattee Library’s expansion and innovation, to not only improve movement through our largest library facility but also to give University Park students more spaces to pursue academic studies, develop entrepreneurial concepts and provide equity of access for hands-on experience with emerging technologies.” Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, said. “Many years of planning, benchmarking and thoughtful discussions have gone into this effort, which we consider the signature project of our Libraries 2020 Vision for Innovation because we believe it exemplifies the forward-looking vision we have for supporting students’ academic success in all our spaces across the University,” Barbara I. The $17.3 million renovation and infill expansion of Pattee Library will increase student group-study and collaboration spaces, and improve overall accessibility across west and central Pattee Library floors and between Pattee Library and Paterno Library. 13) that will help to expand space at Pattee Library for student studying and collaboration on the University Park campus. Penn State’s Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning approved a plan Thursday (Sept. Dial the tour access number (81) on your cell phone and follow the instructions.UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. This Penn State landmark is part of the iHear Penn State self-guided cell phone campus tour, listed as stop #25. Roughly 100,000 volumes are added to the collection annually. The Libraries' cataloged collection now approaches 5 million items. Also on the ground floor of Pattee, at the west entrance, is MacKinnon’s Café, the perfect spot for a study break. Pattee Library, connected to Paterno Library at the Curtin Road entrance, houses the Arts and Humanities Library, the Gateway Commons, the main circulation area, and the extended hours library, which encompasses the Microforms and News Library and the Reserve Reading Room. The fourth floor features an expanded Life Sciences Library, and the fifth floor includes the Education and Behavioral Sciences Library and administrative offices. The first floor houses the Special Collections Library and the main Technical Services room, while the second and third floors support the Social Sciences Library and the Schreyer Business Library. The ground floor of Paterno Library is home to the Maps Library, special collections storage, and the Digital Library Technology office. As the collections grew, so did Pattee: additional wings were added and in 2000, the new Paterno Library and renovated Pattee Library opened. Due to an ever-expanding accumulation of books, the library then moved to the Carnegie Building in 1904, then to the Pattee Library, built between 1937-40. This is a significant evolution from Penn State’s first library collection housed in Old Main, consisting of 1,500 volumes in agriculture and the sciences. Penn State’s University Libraries compromise 36 libraries at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |