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Downtown Stamford Campus Includes State-of-the-Art Library
Nancy Gillies
Interim Director, Jeremy Richard Library
An expanded, technologically upgraded Jeremy Richard Library will be included in UConn's new downtown Stamford campus, scheduled to open for the 1997 fall semester. Nearly 29,000 square feet in size, the library will provide space for more than 100,000 volumes and seats for several hundred users. Computer workstations in the Reference Center will provide students and faculty with access to all of the Libraries' networked electronic information resources including the online catalog, the CD-ROM LAN with its dozens of databases, InfoTrac Searchbank (a full-text database), and access to the Internet via Netscape with World Wide Web search engines.
Librarians will provide hands-on instruction in database searching skills in a classroom designed to facilitiate instruction in electronic resources. An audio/visual room will accommodate both individual and group listening and viewing. Teleconferencing capability between the Babbidge Library and the Jeremy Richard Library will be provided, as will study facilities enabled for laptop computer use.
A dramatic light spline will bring natural light into the Current Journals Reading Room, and spaces designed for users will benefit from attractive, large windows. Visitors to the library will enter from the multi-story atrium that will extend over the entire front of the building, and building materials will match those used in the atrium, including service desks manufactured of solid cherry.
The construction, part of UConn 2000, began on the new downtown campus in August 1996. In addition to classrooms, offices, labs, and a variety of public spaces, the campus will also include a conference center, a computer lounge, a food court, an art gallery, and a branch of the UConn Co-Op. Contractor for the $34.3 million project is the Trumbull firm of Walsh Construction Co. Campus staff and faculty are now working intensively with the New York firm of Perkins Eastman Architects to ensure that the facility will be an educational, cultural, and aesthetic addition to downtown Stamford.
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