University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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he long-awaited ar- chitecfs model of the new addition to the Undergraduate Library was presented Winter Quarter in the University Center Auditorium. were very pleased with the new design, said Donald Hunt, library director. ttltis a very functional building. At an estimated cost of $25 million, the new 250,000 square foot expansion was ex- pected to bring the Undergraduate Library floor space up to 352,000 square feet. The model was designed by Library Associated Ar- chitects, a three-firm organization composed of Lindsay and Maples; McCar- ty, Bullock, and Hollsaple; and Cooper and Perry. llWelre basically building on all four sides tof the ex- isting structurel and above two tloorsf said architect Doug McCarty, who explain- ed the new design to the large group of students, faculty and others who attended the presentation. The addition was expected to expand horizontally to within 20 to 25 feet of the sidewalk along Volunteer Boulevard and Andy Holt Avenue. Two floors will be added to the top, one for stu- dent and faculty use and the other for mechanical and equipment purposes. The interior of the existing building was expected to serve as the core of the new structure and will be remodel- ed to match the design of the new addition, McCarty said. tllt was a real challenge to design the building to func- tion well and to relate scale sizes to the adjacent building, he said. uIt is a very large building for the site, but we feel that by certain concepts we,ve developed we have designed a building that will be a real center to the university? The expanded library was expected to become the main library of the campus and house the entire main collec- tion, said Clayton Dekle, UT Paul Helhmon architect and director of facilities planning. The current Main Library was expected to be used for special collections, archives, noncirculating holdings, maps and the Science and Engineering Library, Dekle said. The new building will be adaptable to the needs and changes of the future, he said. tilt is designed to facilitate and accommodate change and maximize the use of com- puters, microforms and all of the latest technology that libraries are using, Dekle said. The Tennessee General Assembly appropriated $400,000 last year to begin the pre-planning stages of the library expansion. Governor Lamar Alexander pledged his support for the project and was expected to ask the legislature for more planning funds. uWe anticipate an addi- tional $400,000 from the general assembly to complete the tmore detailedl planning for the library expansion, Dekle said. Bids to begin actual con- struction of the building would come at the conclusion of the 1984 session of the state legislature, he said. ttThe project will take at least 30 months to complete once itls under contract, so late ,86 or 87 would be the earliest date that we could ex- pect it to be completed, Dekle said. Building the library without interrupting student and faculty use will mean greater expense and an addi- tional nine months of con- struction time, McCarty said, but previous library expan- sion projects had successfully carried out similar procedures. The decision to expand the UGL rather than build a third major library will save money and better serve the needs of the campus, Dekle said. -Wesley Loy Libraryl l 5

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Students were able to View the model of the proposed $25 million library l 4ILibrary

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By using a new method for registration, administrators hoped that the often time-consuming task would become As simple as A-B-C LONG LINES. Planners forgot to create new signs that would divide the students with the same first letter of their last name into several linest The oversight caused some students to wait in two or three long lines before pick- ing up their schedules. Mike Messing HOPING FOR THE BEST. Robert Gaines, a sophomore in preqnedicine, recalls his student ID for Sally Webster, a junior in nursing. AMID A COLLAGE OF INSTRUCTIONS.-J0nnie Waggoner 0f Registra. tion Services hands out time cards during winter pre-registralion. 1 6t Registration he outcome of the new alphabetical registration system plemented fall quarter work- ed out much better than expected. John McDow, dean of ad- missions and records, said compared to the old system of distributing cards with pre- printed times the new system worked in a more orderly fashion and was less costly. ul think it probably saved anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 a year on registra- tion, said McDow. The im- system offset the higher cost of printing cards with dif- ferent times and cut down on personnel needed to work during registration. Specific times were set for students to pick up their schedules according to the first letter of their last names. Each quarter the time slots were shifted so that students whose names began with let- ters at the end of the alphabetl would get a fair chance at an early schedule pick-up. According to McDow, the system was changed in order Martha Armstrong