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The Library Implementation Group, charged this fall with making concrete changes to the University library system by the winter of 2010, will instead generate another, more specific round of proposals at the end of its one-year tenure.
Intrigued? This same school recently completed a multi-million-dollar renovation of the campus athletic center, allowing its students to work out on brand new cardio machines with TVs for free. The school also just added a cafe to its main college library so its students could study in groups...
Progress is slow as the University plans for the largest restructuring of the library system in at least 30 years.
The group is currently conducting reviews of different aspects of the system and has placed its focus on five key areas—including IT infrastructure, serials purchasing, the financial model of the library system, and increased collaboration, possibly through the consortium BorrowDirect, to which all other Ivy League schools...
Meanwhile, the libraries have seen a series of small-scale reforms. A search box will be added to the library website homepage in the coming weeks, Lamberth said, a concern raised by students as part of the Implementation Group’s information-gathering.