I hate idiots.
Kevin Robinson wants to take the library's reading room and make it into a coffee shop. He has it well-organized, the floor plan looks good, and I think it's a good idea in general...but that was our space! Not that it's anything new, the library has been steadily losing square footage for the last decade. The ETC and the ARC spaces used to be ours, IT wasn't always in it's current location, and now we've lost our reading space. Granted, there will be access to that area from the library, and students will be able to take books in there. We'll probably put a gate by the outside entrance that he has (it's in one of the existing windows), and so they'll be able to take reference books and magazines in there, too, so long as the barista will actually stop people who walk out with un-checked-out-items. But if you don't like working in an area where you can smell food or hear people talking, sorry, but Conco just fucked you over.
We're moving our microfilm and periodicals out of their long, narrow room and we'll put the three tables and the leather chairs back there, and trying to figure out other places to put tables and chairs, but it's not much. The Religion Department is trying to establish a reading room for it's students in the manor, I might see if I can get in on that, since I, personally, HATE coffee.
Oh, and I just found out that a fucking idiot who had left is coming back to CUAA. Hooray, we just slid a little farther into the gutter of desperation.
We're moving our microfilm and periodicals out of their long, narrow room and we'll put the three tables and the leather chairs back there, and trying to figure out other places to put tables and chairs, but it's not much. The Religion Department is trying to establish a reading room for it's students in the manor, I might see if I can get in on that, since I, personally, HATE coffee.
Oh, and I just found out that a fucking idiot who had left is coming back to CUAA. Hooray, we just slid a little farther into the gutter of desperation.