Ellen Urton Academic Services Librarian Arts Humanities Design Team Kansas State University

Sabotage and construction are in total swing in Hale Library!

When nosotros visited on Monday, March 26, more 60 workers swarmed through the edifice.

On the kickoff floor, they were stripping out drywall and violent down walls in grooming for the creation of the Dave & Ellie Everitt Learning Commons, opening Fall 2019.

Ane feature of the Learning Commons? Improved admission! If you've visited Hale Library, you know it has two outside entrances: I at the stop of a long ramp that originates at the southwest corner and one at the opposite end of the edifice nigh Mid-Campus Drive. The latter is called the sunflower archway because of the wrought-iron sunflower sculpture higher up its doors.

Previously, when a visitor used the sunflower entrance, they came within and encountered a wall of windows that blocked their admission to the first floor. Instead, they had to climb the stairs or accept an elevator to the second floor in club to enter through the main gates. Another trip down the stairs or the elevator was required to become back down to the first floor.

Unsurprisingly, this configuration baffled Hale Library's visitors and first-time users (and frankly, fifty-fifty Chiliad-Staters who accept been effectually for awhile).

*Associate Dean Mike Haddock takes a swing at the wall that separated the sunflower entrance from the first floor.*

Only no more! This week, the wall came down. When Unhurt Library'southward first floor reopens in fall 2019, visitors will walk through the sunflower archway straight into the Dave & Ellie Everitt Learning Commons on Hale Library's first floor.

That'southward one pocket-size step for Acquaintance Dean Haddock, one giant jump for time to come visitors to the Dave & Ellie Everitt Learning Commons! Haddock enters the first flooring through the opening created during demolition.

Progress!

Meanwhile, on the third flooring, workers are installing new duct work in the Nifty Room ceiling.

*The new duct work will improve ventilation and heating and cooling throughout the oldest parts of the building.*

*Workers wrap insulation effectually new duct piece of work in the Peachy Room.*

*A crew removes debris in the cranium space immediately southward of the Great Room, but higher up the Bookish Learning Eye.*

Outside, on the north side of the building, scaffolding is going up in preparation for an imminent roofing projection.

A crane is parked nearby on the south edge of the quad. It is maneuvering steel beams from the roof into a space above the fourth floor Academic Learning Center where the fire started.

*The north side of Historic Farrell Library (the 1927 section of the Hale Library building).*

*The crane extends over Historic Farrell Library's roof and moves the beams through a gap in the penthouse wall, which is below and to the correct of the crane's lifting hook.*

Since the crane operator on the ground can't see over the edifice, the workers rely on communication via wireless radio to consummate every stride of the process.

*A worker on Unhurt Library'southward roof guides a steel beam into the penthouse and onto a winch system in the ceiling that moves the beam into place.*

Two steelworkers position the beam. Well-nigh of the walls are black from years of roofing tar, but in this photograph, the wall backside the worker in the florescent yellow shirt was also blackened by the fire.

*Associate Deans Sheila Yeh and Mike Haddock await on.*

From the outside, Hale Library appears quiet and empty. On the within, information technology's a different scene entirely. We expect frontwards to bringing y'all more construction updates in the coming weeks.

*Two workers make clean debris from the attic space next to the Great Room.*

Award flavour continues! If they created an all-team Large 12 librarian category, these would be our contenders: They've all been nominated for the Brice G. Hobrock Distinguished Faculty Award.

The Hobrock Award was established by the Friends of K-State Libraries to honor Dean Emeritus Hobrock upon his retirement in 2004. Annually, the award recognizes outstanding librarianship and superior accomplishments among the K-Country Libraries kinesthesia.

Nominees are evaluated based on their professional activities during the last 2 years. Ane recipient is honored with a plaque of recognition and an honour of $1,000.

*Jo Crawford was nominated for her dedication to securing the all-time possible journal prices in the confront of increasingly difficult economic conditions.*

Collection development librarians oversee purchases and subscriptions, deaccession underused materials and make other strategic decisions regarding how the Libraries spends their acquisitions dollars.

Jo, who currently focuses on scientific discipline materials, has worked in this challenging field since 2011. The Libraries currently spend about $five million each year on subscriptions to electronic databases and journals. Yet, publishers have been raising their prices for years.

Jo's nominator noted that she has been a dedicated employee, working long hours in Hale Library to find the best prices possible in gild to get the materials our researchers demand, even in the face of inexorable subscription increases.

*Casey Hoeve, associate professor, was nominated for outstanding scholarship and leadership.*

Like other K-Land kinesthesia members, our librarians acquit enquiry, write journal articles and books, and present and atomic number 82 committees for professional person associations in their bailiwick.

Casey's nominator said, "Casey has worked very hard … equally co-chair of the Libraries, Archives, & Museums area for the Popular Culture Association … . He attends area chairs meetings, chairs all panels (often 8-10 panels per conference) … reviews paper proposals and handles a multitude of questions that come up to the area chairs prior to a briefing. Additionally, he has presented at the conference and his papers are infrequent."

And finally, they noted the excellent piece of work Casey has washed as a collection development librarian for the arts and humanities in a challenging economical surroundings: "[H]east has worked diligently over the by 2 years to work with bookish departments as K-Land Libraries has continued to cancel serials due to ongoing budget constraints."

*Char Simser, professor, was nominated for professional excellence and patient mentorship.*

Char, coordinator of electronic publishing, works hand-in-hand with the editors who create their online scholarly journals through K-Country Libraries' online open up access publisher, New Prairie Press. There is a significant amount of setup work associated with creating a new journal, and Char has helped dozens of organizations navigate that process.

In the fall of 2017, the National Bookish Advising Association (NACADA) sought to publish a new periodical, NACADA REVIEW, with New Prairie Press. Char'south nominator from NACADA said, "Char has been with us every step of the mode."

"Char'due south expertise is invaluable equally our editors … [prepare] for the countdown issue. For Char, no question is too 'dumb.' Her explanations are straight forward, her patience dizzying, her advice golden. In brusk, this journal would non exist without Char'due south expertise. … [she] is truly an excellent resource and colleague for One thousand-State faculty, and takes the mission of the open access community to heart."

*Ellen Urton, associate professor, was nominated for outstanding contributions in support of faculty didactics.*

Not all students come up to G-State prepared to deport college-level research. Bookish librarians address that challenge by teaching research skills in classrooms across campus. In fact, K-State'due south librarians often collaborate with other faculty members and get co-teachers or research partners.

Ellen Urton is a devoted teaching partner. She has long supported the Landscape Architecture and Regional and Community Planning (LARCP) program through hands-on teaching. Still, according to her nominator, "she eclipsed all of her past efforts through her recent collaboration on LAR101 'Introduction to Landscape Architecture.'"

Ellen collaborated with an LARCP professor and graduate educatee to develop a course from scratch: "Ellen's vast expertise of resources, learning models and physical pedagogy methods complimented her inventiveness for course structure and content development," her nominator said. "Once the semester began, Ellen helped students directly past providing feedback on their work … . I can state with absolute certainty that [their] was significantly enriched past Ellen'south diligent contributions."

The winners will be announced at the All-Staff Recognition Ceremony on Wednesday, March 27. Congratulations to the nominees!

Sometimes, y'all have to strip abroad the old earlier you lot can build the new. That's our theme this week, as nosotros bring you dramatic photos of the latest demolition and construction in Hale Library.

A map illustrates 10 of K-State's university buildings. with Hale Library located at the center. A small red mark is at Hale's upper left corner.

To help give you a sense of the site of our first photos, the jagged red spot higher up marks the location of the burn.

Two peaked plywood roofs stand about four feet high in the foreground. An attic-like space is situated on a ledge above and behind them.

Today, if you lot enter Historic Farrell Library'southward 3rd floor and stand up on the false flooring built on meridian of the scaffolding that fills the Great Room, like Acquaintance Dean Mike Haddock did recently, yous can see that spot.

The Great Room murals are covered past the plywood boxes with peaked roofs, which you see in the photo above. The attic space where the fire burned is directly above and behind them. In an attic-like space, a charred wall is at the right. The floor is missing except for some support beams, so you can see through to the room below.

Upwards shut, you lot can see that the debris has been cleared away. Through the holes in the attic flooring you look down into the Bookish Learning Middle (ALC) where the student athletes met for study tables. ALC staff members were the ones who first smelled the fume, even before the fire alarms went off.

While the charred walls are a articulate mark of the destruction, this also serves to illustrate that the actual burn down was contained to one location. The vast majority of the damage was from fume and water.

But plenty devastation for today'due south mail.

How about some demolition? In Hale Library as nosotros knew it, there were a lot of stairwells–many of them in tucked-away corners of the building that weren't highly trafficked. They took up prime real manor, then in our renovation, we're reclaiming the stairway highlighted in purple above.

A pile of rubble sits at the base of a metal staircase.

Before we can renovate, though, it has to be demolished. It might non look very innovative right now, but workers have jack-hammered away physical to clear away space for the Innovation Center on Unhurt Library's outset and second floors. At the left, a worker in a blue hardhat stands on a staircase. A shower of sparks rains down from the next flight of stairs on the right.

After the concrete was hauled out, crews used blowtorches to detach the frames of the metal staircases.

A stairwell made of concrete blocks stands nearly empty except for a small piece of metal stairway and a section of red scaffolding.

Here you can see that the demolition has cleared out the stairs between third and fourth floor. As of today, that entire stairwell has been emptied. Progress!

In the Innovation Heart, users will generate virtual reality experiences through 360-degree video or 3-D animation. They will create bogus intelligence, edit sound and video and learn to utilize state-of-the-fine art technology that is not readily available elsewhere on campus.

And then, Associate Dean Mike Haddock (who takes 97% of the astonishing photos we bring you) is back. The map below shows the northwest corner of the beginning floor. Mike, as represented by the small imperial man, is standing in Historic Farrell Library's Room 117, and the rectangles highlighted in pink represent shafts (chosen "chases," in construction parlance) that extend
through the building from the start flooring up to the fourth.

A line drawing of the upper left portion of a floor map. Four small pink rectangles are in a horizontal row across the top third of the map.

This is what Mike sees when he turns and faces east-north-e toward Willard Hall and Mid-Campus Drive. A large, shabby room lined with glass windows with small square panes and columns with ornate plaster moldings.

If he turns to face up southward, he sees a wall of Room 117 opposite the large banking concern of windows looks like this:

A very thick, worn wall made of limestone and plaster is different shades of white and beige and has several different-sized rectangular windows and doorways. For most of us, the exciting part of construction comes when you lot become to await at the shiny, clean end product. We're not in that location yet, merely there'due south really important work going on now so that the new Hale Library's infrastructure can support all of those shiny, clean new spaces, similar the previously mentioned Innovation Heart.

Case in point regarding infrastructure: The steel beam over the doorway in the photo above is new reinforcement.

A rough limestone wall is at right. Two narrow rectangular-shaped holes are cut in the floor in front of the wall. Dust and stone debris coats the rest of the floor. If we were to walk through that doorway, yous'd find the chases that are highlighted in pinkish on the floor plan above. On second, third and 4th floors, guardrails have been built around those chases for condom, since they're essentially like an open elevator shaft.

A room with a lot of exposed metal wall framing is filled with give large rectangular metal pieces of ductwork wrapped in metallic silver insulation.

Over the terminal calendar month, workers accept been installing ductwork wrapped in insulation into those chases. The ductwork runs through the edifice from pinnacle to bottom.

A length of metallic silver insulation-wrapped rectangular ductwork is installed in one of the chases in front of the limestone wall.

This is only some of the construction piece of work on Hale Library's infrastructure. With improvements like these in place, the edifice volition take improved air quality and more than efficient heating and cooling.

A worn limestone and plaster wall in shades of off-white and white is punctuated by several rectangular windows and door. Several of those spaces are now blocked by the air vents wrapped in metallic silver ductwork.

Progress is happening. It's non shiny and make clean, but information technology'south of import work that will take us one step forward to our new Unhurt Library.

As always, if you have questions about the procedure, please comment on the web log postal service or contact united states at libcomm@ksu.edu!

To all of our student and faculty readers, happy jump break! We won't be posting next week, but we'll exist back on March 19.

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Source: https://blogs.k-state.edu/hale/2019/03/

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