Javad, 4th floor

Javad is home!

Dave learned this morning that Javad has been released from the hospital.  We will keep you informed as we follow his progress!

4th floor project

Here is the text of an email that will go out to the AHSC students this week and again after the break.  A similar message will go out as an AHSC memo after the break.  We will host a session for students to express their concerns and to hear about our plans.

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AHSC Offices to Move into 4th Floor of Library

Effective December 19th, the 4th floor of the library will close and offices for the Arizona Health Sciences Center will be built in the space.  According to Facilities Management, construction will begin in early 2015 with completion of the offices expected in April.  The 4th floor has primarily been used as study space for AHSC students and includes 8 group study rooms and a large silent study room.

The director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library, Gary Freiburger, stated that his main concern is reducing the impact this change has on AHSC students and their ability to study in the library. Working with the Library Advisory Council, library staff and Facilities Management, he has quickly identified several short and long-term strategies to create additional study space on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the library.

As part of the construction project, eleven study rooms--9 individual and 2 group study rooms--will be built on the 3rd floor to replace the rooms on the 4th floor.  Current study space will be reconfigured to accommodate furniture from the 4th floor to be distributed throughout the 2nd and 3rd floors.  Some library staff will be relocated and office space converted to study rooms. Longer term strategies include reducing the print collection to free up additional study space.  Where possible print journals will be replaced with electronic holdings and lesser used materials identified and moved into off-site storage. 

AHSL is committed to making the library a great place for serious study. Your ideas and suggestions are important.  Join us on January 16th at a time to be announced in Room 2150M in the library so we can share our ideas and listen to yours. You can also use the contact form at: http://ahsl.arizona.edu/contact and choose "Give us feedback" from the dropdown menu.