Moffitt Revitalization Is Underway
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THE LIBRARY Univer sity of California, Berkeley | No. 38 Winter 2016 | lib.berkeley.edu/give Fiat Lux Moffitt revitalization is underway NEW SPACES SUPPORT HOW TODA Y’S STUDENTS LEARN Moffit Library’s fourth floor will feature collaborative space with transparent, movable walls, ready for students’ sketches and calculations. A revitalization of Moffitt Library now underway Gensler—the architectural design firm involved is turning it into the premier campus location for in the project—is known for its service-based undergraduate study. New spaces on the fourth design. Their background includes work on and fifth floors will serve as magnets for social and Apple stores, Facebook’s headquarters, the newly group learning, while other spaces will support quiet, renovated Terminal 3 of San Francisco International solitary work. Technology-rich, 24-hour floors will Airport, and the new UC Berkeley Extension empower the around-the-clock, 21st century learning San Francisco campus. style of today’s students. Students eagerly await the collaborative spaces, “We model fresh thinking about ways to support snack-friendly policies, and increased availability today’s students who are active, connected, of Moffitt (projected to be 24 hours during the distracted and ambitious,” says associate university academic year). Jenna Maughan (’18) says that “We librarian Elizabeth Dupuis. She emphasizes the can definitely benefit from more group study areas. need to adapt the four-decade-old Moffitt to It’s also great that Moffitt will be open 24 hours help undergraduates make the best use of because a lot of us stay up late.” their study time. continued on page 3-4 The University Library “I HOLD A LIBRARY University of California, Berkeley AND EDUCATION MOFFITT REVITALIZATION IS UNDERWAY TO BE ALMOST DOE/MOFFITT LIBRARIES SYNONYMOUS.” Carmen Zheng (’17) adds that “Most of us with 21st century standards for access, heating Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library —Professor William David P. Gar dner Stacks crave open, co-working spaces, as well as and ventilating. Enhanced power supplies and James K. Moffitt Library Swinton, University independent carrels. For their perfect augmented wireless access points for digital Graduate Services Librarian 1869-1874 library, undergraduates today want devices will be welcomed by all visitors to this Media Resources Center portable chairs, snacks and coffee heavily used library. Alexander F. Morrison Memorial Library As the intellectual for fuel, natural light, and of course abundant technology access!” Newspapers and Micr oforms commons of the South/Southeast Asia Library Berkeley experience, Students are glad that during the construction SUBJECT SPECIALTY, EAST ASIAN, AND BANCROFT LIBRARIES the University work, the other floors in the popular library— The George and Mar y Foster Anthropology Library Library serves tens as well as the Free Speech Movement Café— Art History/ Classics Library of thousands of remain open and available. The new 4th and 5th floors will welcome students in fall 2016. The Bancroft Library students, faculty, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natur al Resources Library Thomas J. Long Business Library and visiting scholars Berkeley faculty enthusiastically testify to the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library each year. It provides need for collaborative, technology-equipped Earth Sciences and Map Library the resources they library spaces to support student learning. C.V. Starr East Asian Library need for exploration Barrie Roberts, who teaches public speaking, notes that “My College Writing colleagues Education-Psychology Library and new discoveries Kresge Engineering Library and I are thrilled that we'll finally have a place Environmental Design Library in fields spanning where students can experiment and develop Mathematics Statistics Library the sciences, arts their individual and group presentation skills, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library and humanities, aided by cutting-edge technology.” Pamela and Kenneth Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and social sciences, Physics-Astronomy Library Sara Beckman, who has taught courses Haas faculty member Sara Beckman says as well as the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library on design, technology and operations “As pedagogy changes, we will increasingly interdisciplinary Social Welfare Library management, and entrepreneurship at Haas leverage the amazing talents of the Berkeley explorations that are School of Business for over three decades, student population in peer-to-peer learning, comments that “The new Moffitt space will AFFILIATED LIBRARIES a particular strength in situations that range from solution of Architecture Visual Resources Library be the perfect setting in which students can at Berkeley. simple problem sets to engagement in deep Earthquake Engineering R esearch Center Library work in interdisciplinary teams and learn Environmental Design Ar chives to apply their knowledge to important collaborations to solve so-called ‘wicked Ethnic Studies Library The Library is at world problems.” problems.’ Peer-to-peer learning, whether Giannini Foundation of Agricultur al Economics Library the heart of the one-on-one or in small groups, requires Institute of Gov ernmental Studies Library University’s mission Together with the new study spaces, the exactly the flexible, modernized, Institute of Industrial R elations Library of teaching, research, Moffitt revitalization is addressing much- technology-empowered spaces that needed improvements to the building’s Harmer E. Davis Tr ansportation Library and public service. are being developed in Moffitt.” Garrett W. McEnerney Law Library infrastructure. These include expanded restrooms, upgraded elevators, and a new roof, along continued on page 4 2 | FIAT LUX | Winter 2016 Winter 2016 | FIAT LUX | 3 The University Library “I HOLD A LIBRARY University of California, Berkeley AND EDUCATION MOFFITT REVITALIZATION IS UNDERWAY TO BE ALMOST DOE/MOFFITT LIBRARIES SYNONYMOUS.” Carmen Zheng (’17) adds that “Most of us with 21st century standards for access, heating Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library —Professor William David P. Gar dner Stacks crave open, co-working spaces, as well as and ventilating. Enhanced power supplies and James K. Moffitt Library Swinton, University independent carrels. For their perfect augmented wireless access points for digital Graduate Services Librarian 1869-1874 library, undergraduates today want devices will be welcomed by all visitors to this Media Resources Center portable chairs, snacks and coffee heavily used library. Alexander F. Morrison Memorial Library As the intellectual for fuel, natural light, and of course abundant technology access!” Newspapers and Micr oforms commons of the South/Southeast Asia Library Berkeley experience, Students are glad that during the construction SUBJECT SPECIALTY, EAST ASIAN, AND BANCROFT LIBRARIES the University work, the other floors in the popular library— The George and Mar y Foster Anthropology Library Library serves tens as well as the Free Speech Movement Café— Art History/ Classics Library of thousands of remain open and available. The new 4th and 5th floors will welcome students in fall 2016. The Bancroft Library students, faculty, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natur al Resources Library Thomas J. Long Business Library and visiting scholars Berkeley faculty enthusiastically testify to the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library each year. It provides need for collaborative, technology-equipped Earth Sciences and Map Library the resources they library spaces to support student learning. C.V. Starr East Asian Library need for exploration Barrie Roberts, who teaches public speaking, notes that “My College Writing colleagues Education-Psychology Library and new discoveries Kresge Engineering Library and I are thrilled that we'll finally have a place Environmental Design Library in fields spanning where students can experiment and develop Mathematics Statistics Library the sciences, arts their individual and group presentation skills, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library and humanities, aided by cutting-edge technology.” Pamela and Kenneth Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and social sciences, Physics-Astronomy Library Sara Beckman, who has taught courses Haas faculty member Sara Beckman says as well as the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library on design, technology and operations “As pedagogy changes, we will increasingly interdisciplinary Social Welfare Library management, and entrepreneurship at Haas leverage the amazing talents of the Berkeley explorations that are School of Business for over three decades, student population in peer-to-peer learning, comments that “The new Moffitt space will AFFILIATED LIBRARIES a particular strength in situations that range from solution of Architecture Visual Resources Library be the perfect setting in which students can at Berkeley. simple problem sets to engagement in deep Earthquake Engineering R esearch Center Library work in interdisciplinary teams and learn Environmental Design Ar chives to apply their knowledge to important collaborations to solve so-called ‘wicked Ethnic Studies Library The Library is at world problems.” problems.’ Peer-to-peer learning, whether Giannini Foundation of Agricultur al Economics Library the heart of the one-on-one or in small groups, requires Institute of Gov ernmental Studies Library University’s mission Together with the new study spaces, the exactly the flexible, modernized, Institute of Industrial R elations Library of teaching, research, Moffitt revitalization is addressing