Daily Archives: November 7, 2012

On November 5, WKU Libraries’ Leadership Council, in addition to related personnel from the Special Collections Library and the Kentucky Museum, was given a tour of the Augenstein Alumni Center Building under construction on campus. Within the facility, there will be space for displaying special collections and museum objects. There will also be opportunities for the Libraries to use the spaces therein for marketing purposes.

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Rick Redman, VP for Corporate Communication for Hillerich & Bradsby was our guest. He talked about the history of the “Louisville Slugger” the iconic bat used by a majority of today’s major league baseball players as well as players in countless baseball, fastball and softball leagues around the country. This was part of WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! talk series taking place monthly at Barnes & Noble. Attending the event tonight were WKU Provost Gordon Emslie and Inerim Dean of WKU Libraries Connie Foster.
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Thank you all for your continued patience with the renovation of Cravens 4^th floor. Please express acknowledgement to the students too as you are able.  I wanted to provide a monthly update and let you know that everything is still on schedule for reopening in January. We’ve put banners on the walkway to Cravens and renderings inside Helm and Cravens to give you a glimpse of the transformation.

• Ceiling clouds are being hung to define Circulation Services, the laptop counter and the Single Service Point (Research, Technology, and Writing). Ceiling tiles and light panels are being installed. The grids have been painted to give a fresh look to the ceiling.
• November brings painting to be mostly completed, the carpentry to be finished, paneling to be installed, as well as carpeting and tile to be installed.
• Certain areas of the 4^th floor will be closed at different points through the month while the carpet and tile is being laid. During the week of November 12^th the main area will be carpeted and tiled. For the couple of days that the breezeway is being tiled/carpeted we will have to lock it and close it off. The lobby area will be getting tiled on the week of November 19^th (unless things are moved up), during which time the entrance off the bridge and access to that area of the floor will be closed off, presumably only for a few days.

We will let you know specifically when the 4^th floor entrance will not be available when the lobby area is being retiled as I know some students have concerns about access to that HigherOne ATM.

Thank you.

Connie Foster, Interim Dean
WKU Libraries