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Your New Library promises to be an inspiring place you will enjoy visiting to study and meet with friends.

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• learning lounges open extended hours
  existing Library open up to 10 hours a day
• Automated Document Storage & Retrieval System (ASRS) will help you find and retrieve items quickly and efficiently, storing 80% of collection, open shelves storing 20% of collection
  existing Library collections (1.8 million items) on open shelves and in stack, vulnerable to theft and damage
• café located at entrance
  existing Library has vending machines for refreshments
• adaptable & high tech personal and collaborative learning spaces with capacity for 3,000 seats
  existing Library has 1,260 seats, 21 group study rooms, and a learning lounge
• quiet study areas & dedicated postgraduate research areas
  existing Library has Postgraduate Reading Room
• support for technology enabled learning with more PCs and digital resources
  existing Library has 124 PCs plus 100 PCs in C5C
• emphasis on sustainability, healthy environment, natural light and living courtyards
  existing Library has served the University and students well and is of a design typical of its era

Learning Lounge

• The Library is currently trialling a variety of workspaces and technology. In June 2007 the Library received a grant of $150,000 from the University’s 2007 Carrick Institute Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. It has been used to design a student-centred learning space on level 1 of the Library.
  
  The Learning Lounge is a self-regulated area for students to use technology and work individually or collaboratively. The area is being monitored and evaluated so that the best design features and most in-demand solutions can be integrated into the new Library.