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Air quality, heat concern students
The Henry Madden Library will be closed Tuesday until 3 p.m. during the initial installation of the outer walls of the new building on the east side, close to the current library entrance.
In addition, the popular walkway between the library and the University Center will also be closed but for a lon-ger period. During the installation pro-cess, this walkway will be inaccessible from today through Friday, Sept. 21.
Library project manager Sara Wallet said it would take about five days to erect the new walls on the library’s south and east sides, with the project expected to be finished by Monday,
Sept. 24.It won’t be safe for anyone to pass
by those areas during the installation, Wallet said.
Construction workers with flags will be around to assist passers-by “if there’s enough truck traffic to justify routing students and ensure safety,” Wallet said.
A dozen pre-cast, 14-by-30-foot slabs of concrete being stored on flat-bed trailers in Lot Y, a gravel lot at the far northeast corner of campus, will become the new exterior of the expand-ed library once the installation is com-plete.
Although the walkway between the library and the University Center has
become a common entry point to stu-dents and faculty coming in from the parking lots to the south, Wallet didn’t foresee any big problems with the rout-ing of foot traffic around the library site.
Students and others can walk between the University Center and Keats build-ing for example, Wallet said, or any of numerous other north-south routes.
The library will reopen later on Tuesday at 3 p.m. and will remain open until 10 p.m. that day. Library hours will be extended until 10 p.m. today to help alleviate any inconveniences.
According to a bulletin sent to stu-dents, faculty and staff about the clo-sure and construction this week, book
check-out from the library should not be hampered. Books requested from the warehouse serving as a temporary storage facility can be picked up at the northwest entrance of the University Center on Tuesday until the library reopens at 3 p.m.
In addition, online reference servic-es such as “Ask the Librarian” on the library’s Web page and via e-mail at [email protected] will remain in operation throughout the week.
To further assist students and inform them of the library’s closure, library kiosks will be set up in the Free Speech area and near Parking Lot D early in the week.
Although temperatures have notice-ably dropped recently in the Valley, most students cannot forget the hot temperatures they faced at the begin-ning of the semester.
As the fall 2007 semester began, stu-dents were met with temperatures looming from the low 100 degrees to the high 90s.
Last week, the persistent hot weather was excaberated by the sooty smoke that blew in and blanketed the Valley from raging wildfires hundreds of miles away.
The hot, stagnant weather raised air pollution to dangerous levels and led to the cancellation of some outdoor activities.
On campus, some students hoping to escape the heat by going to class may have been disappointed, noticing that classes in some buildings were defi-nitely warmer than others.
Dick Smith, director of Utility Mana g ement , said August and September prove to be a problem every year because of the heat.
Smith said that a lot of the buildings are 50 years old, and that because of renovations, cooling them down can be a problem.
“The buildings are not being used," Smith said. "They were designed 50 years ago.
“They are tearing down walls, adding walls, and adding computers.
“Because of this, we can no longer cool them properly,” Smith said.
Complaints about rooms not being cool enough were not more than usual, but when school starts it always becomes a problem.
“People give off heat,” Smith said. “So you have 15-30 people, they start giving off heat, and the room gets hot-ter.”
By Allison Asahina The Collegian
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Walled exterior to put new face on library this weekBy Brent VonCannon
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