New Graduate Student Reading Room Soon Open in Scott Library

A newly renovated quiet reading room for graduate students is about to open on the fourth floor of Scott Library. In a number of surveys and focus groups conducted by the Libraries over the years, one very clearly expressed need has been for quiet study space for graduate students in Scott Library. York University Libraries, with generous assistance from the Office of the Vice President Academic and the Faculty of Graduate Studies, has constructed what should be a very suitable and attractive space for the intense library research and reading of our graduate students. The Graduate Student Reading Room, on the fourth floor of Scott Library, should be open for use by the end of September 2005. Please join us for our official opening celebration on October 25, 2005.

The Graduate Student Reading Room occupies a space that was an unattractive and under-used room crammed with old carrels. The handsome renovated space has new carpeting and a new ceiling, large study tables with task lighting and comfortable chairs, as well as a number of upholstered lounge chairs. At the tables, there are also electrical outlets and network drops for notebook computers. In addition, AirYork wireless network access has been extended to cover the whole of the space. At one end of the room will be several computers and a printer (using standard Libraries' print/copy debit cards).

An electronic sound masking system has been installed to muffle noise, though the intent of the room will be for individual quiet reading and writing. We've even had the windows washed! Graduate students will soon be sent, by way of their Graduate Program Directors, a door access code, which will be changed each year.

We hope that all graduate students will avail themselves of this inviting new space whenever they may need to read and think intensively in Scott Library.

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