Summer update 1: 32 new study spaces
Where?
In the First Floor East Reading Room of Founder’s Library. This is one up the stairs, and on the left (or right, if you’re using the lift).
The lovely Victorian reading room on the right (First Floor West) remains intact and beautiful as ever.
How?
Old metal shelves in that section have been removed, leaving behind wooden shelves and a lot of space for seats.
The metal shelves were dismantled, and replaced with new seating, which made it look a bit like this for a while:
Taken from the Music collection, facing out into the corridor (Victorian reading room through the green doors at the end of the picture).
And once it was tidied up, this was the finished product.
So where did the books go?
The French Literature Collection (840-849) has been moved from Founder’s First Floor East & Founder’s Ground Floor East to Founder’s Basement West (where the Founder’s print journals used to be, just below the linguistics collections).
AND in order to create much needed space in the Music book and scores collections, these have been spaced out in both sections of Founder’s First Floor East – on the shelves in the photo above. (Music previously occupied just the back section).
Why?
The Libraries always need more space, and in recent years there haven’t been many changes to Founder’s Library. This should make it a bit easier to find somewhere silent to study in the Libraries. It’s also given the Music collection lots of room to spread out – no more peering up at the high shelves for scores!