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You will be missed…
In December of 2015 Lehman Hall will close its doors in preparation to be demolished and revamped. The ugly, but symbolic to Barnard, exterior of the library will go, but in its place will come a digital commons and much more! Here is a brief outline of the additions that are being incorporated to Barnard’s campus.
The new library is projected to be 50 percent larger than the current library and able to accommodate a 75 percent increase of student study space.
The digital commons mentioned above will occupy the main floor of the new library. It will include, a modern digital production studio, a roomy space dedicated to creativity, a modern Empirical Reasoning Center, a Digital Humanities Center, and an innovative Movement Laboratory that will be suitable for analyzing the science of movement, dance, and performance. The full extent of the digital commons will be revealed in the fall.
Lefrak Gymnasium is scheduled to refurbished starting in June 2015. An additional floor is being added to temporarily house the faculty being displaced by the closure of Lehman Hall. The first floor of the gym will serve as the library beginning in the spring semester of 2016. When the books can return to their new home in August of 2018, the first floor of Lefrak will continue to serve its previous role as the gymnasium. The new addition of the second floor will act as BCIT’s new office space.
In May, the website with updates on the building process will go live. Be sure to check it out.
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@Fecally yours Barnard is an anachronism. A mediocre school that has a parasitic relationship with Columbia University. How about those Bold Beautiful Columbia College women? Anyway, Barnard…irrelevant since 1983.
@Jenna Freedman I can’t say anything about a gym or a pool, but Barnard will still have a library. There will be librarians, instructional media technologists, archivists, and support staff. We will circulate course reserves, zines, media equipment and materials, BorrowDirect and Offsite requests. We will have media editing stations, a training classroom, study space, and I’m hoping a swing in our swing space. :)
We’ll have fewer books, for sure, but we will still be a library. And less ugly, thank you very much. Looks aren’t everything! In librarianship, it’s not the size of your book collection that matters.
@Anonymous So, basically Barnard will not have a gym, a pool, or a library until at least 2018.
@hmmm So the library is going to be expanded to accommodate the addition of a dance floor?
@Worried But what about the magnolia tree during construction???