By Rikki George, Staff Writer
Following last year’s mid-March carpet improvements to its first and second floors, the Dulaney-Browne Library is undergoing a complete fifth-floor face-lift .
The fifth floor will become home to new technological features, including an air-controlled archives room with an adjoining reading area and two high-tech study rooms. Honors students also will receive floor space for a new seminar room, said Victoria Swinney, library director.
Library officials hope for the construction will be finished between spring and summer 2011, but the length of the renovation isn’t set in stone. Previous projects at the library have had no time limit, Swinney said.
The upgrades are part of a $250,000 project, which was funded by the United Methodist Church and library usage fees, Swinney said.
The money to fund these extensive refurbishments came from raising money “one floor at a time.” The remaining funds after completion will become available for future projects in the library, Swinney said.
The entire library eventually will resemble the first and second floors, Swinney said.
Rose Lane, religion senior, said she looks forward to the completion of the projects.
“The archives room will give me more study opportunities and access to important historical documents that pertain to the Methodist Church,” she said.
Plans to renovate the fifth floor were developed by former provost Bernie Patterson in 2004, Swinney said.
“All of these projects are taken on with the hope of getting more students to utilize what Dulaney-Browne has to offer on various levels,” she said.
Once completed, Swinney said she thinks the fifth floor will provide nice places to study and hopes that it will attract more people.
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