President Hitchcock Announces $3.5 Million Campaign To Equip The New [Science] Library
1998 March
President Karen Hitchcock announced a $3.5 million campaign to equip the new [Science] Library. Interim Vice President for Advancement Paul Stec points out that while the State covered approximately $22 million of the $30 million in total cost for the new building, as well as $250,000 to rehab the University Library, that still left approximately $6.7 million in equipment, wiring, and electronic classrooms for the new library unmet, as well as $1.35 million for the rehab of the University Library. Hitchcock noted that the new library will be the first new academic space on the campus in 35 years. Included in the five-story structure with 142,430 net sq. ft. will be a 600,000 volume Science Library, new computer facilities for information retrieval, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, and a preservation and digitization laboratory.
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$3.5 Million Campaign Announced to Equip New Library," University Update, March 25, 1998, p. 1