A focus group meeting with students was arranged for Wednesday 9th September. 15 students turned up to hear Dawn, Gail and I talked about the proposed merger, what was happening with the bookstock and the draft floor plans. The students came well prepared with questions and there was a good discussion ranging over issues of space, allocation of budgets for subjects, what was happening over the Summer Semester, and which Library would be open when. The summer hours for the Library, including Physical Sciences and Engineering, are now up on the web page.

The team involved with moving the bookstock and journals has now completed their tasks. Well done to everybody concerned particularly to Theresa who masterminded the entire operation, which went incredibly smoothly.

The Project Control Group meeting this week was well attended. The Architect (Nick) displayed a number of drawing sshowing many of the details that will be incorporated into the Engineering Library. There will be additional fire egress stairs added to the outside of the building by the lift at Level 2. Nick explained that much of the interior work would be pre-manufactured offsite and this will help to keep the project within the tight timeframe. We were told that the colour of items manufactured out of plywood would be “Victorian Ash”, our first hint of the colour palette that is being considered. We are still waiting for floor plans that can be put on display.
ICTS are still looking for an appropriate area to relocate “The Cave” in and are hopefull that they are close to a solution.

Heather