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				Olin Library Level B reopens after complete renovation Olin Library's Level B recently opened to the public after a comprehensive renovation that greatly improved its appearance and functionality. Level B is the first floor to be renovated as part of Olin Library's comprehensive renovation of all five levels and the expansion of its main level. Scheduled for completion in mid-2004, the renovated library will feature improved user spaces, a cyber café, a 24-hour study space and many other beneficial changes. Some displaced books return When renovation to Olin Library began, some books were moved temporarily to West Campus Library. Now all the books displaced from Olin Library have been brought back, except those wtih call numbers beginning with F, G, or H. This last group of books should be back in Olin Library by late December. Any future movement of collections will take place within Olin Library and will not require relocating books to outside locations. Level B is two floors below the main level. It currently houses government documents, history and social sciences collections, the Islamic studies collection, all folios and oversized books regardless of discipline and various library offices. Visitors to Level B will find numerous improvements. For example, movable compact shelving has been installed to accommodate many more books, an important feature as the library expands its collections. Also newly installed are lights that cast a warmer, brighter light. Graduate students can study in any of three graduate group study rooms on the west side of this level. Faculty studies run all along the south wall and face rows of lockers that can be assigned to faculty members or graduate students who rely heavily on the library's resources. Wooden day lockers located near the restrooms may be used by any visitor to the library. Both types of lockers are new and much-desired features in Olin Library. Though Level B is open, minor work continues during daytime hours, and a few major changes are yet to come. The furniture now on Level B will be replaced with new furniture in late spring. New signs will be installed, and the Gellhorn Lounge will be reinstalled in the lobby of the main staircase. Elsewhere in Olin Library, renovations to Level A are shaping up fast, said Virginia Toliver, associate dean of University Libraries. That level should open before the start of spring semester, she said. "Level A will be home to a technology center that will bring many of the latest computing capabilities to a central location where students and faculty can work on sophisticated computing and digitization projects," Toliver said. "This level also will house books, multimedia, the Islamic studies collection and reading areas, faculty carrels and study rooms." For more information about the renovation, visit www.library.wustl.edu/renovation. Questions or comments should be e-mailed to renovation@library.wustl.edu.

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