Gilreath, 'Changes Afoot in the D. H. Hill Library', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v23n07 (February 1996)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 23 no. 7
February 1996
Gilreath, Charles
"Changes Afoot in the D. H. Hill Library"


Changes Afoot in the D. H. Hill Library

During the last half of this academic year, the NCSU Libraries 
will begin a number of physical changes in the public areas of 
the D. H. Hill Library.  Two of the changes are connected with 
the library's effort to reorganize its services into 
consolidated service points to better serve users.  The third is 
the introduction of a UNIX workstation facility for the 
university community.

As has been previously announced, the Reference and 
Documents departments merged organizationally on July 1 into 
the Research and Information Services Department.  Since that 
date, the staff in the two departments have worked hard doing 
cross-training and preparing for the physical merger of the 
two reference collections into the space currently occupied by 
the former Reference Department.  This merger will entail 
considerable rearrangement of bookstack ranges, installation 
of new shelving, and a reconfiguration of the reference desk.  
Most of this work will be scheduled to have minimal impact on 
service to users and will begin after final exams this spring.

During the same time frame, the Periodicals Service Center 
will be consolidated with the Reserve Room.  The current 
periodical collection will be moved out of the East Wing 
basement into the current study area on the first floor of the 
Erdahl-Cloyd Wing of the library.  This is a move that has been 
contemplated for some time, and the Class of 1991 has begun a 
fund to support a thorough renovation of that space.  It will 
still be some time before sufficient funds are available to do 
the complete job, but the relocation of the current periodicals 
collection into more easily accessible space and the 
consolidation of service points needs to be done now to 
improve services to users.

Finally, the inauguration of a forty-five-station UNIX computer 
facility on the second floor of the new addition will occur in 
late spring.  This is a joint effort between the Libraries and 
the university=D5s Academic Computing.  The library is providing 
space and furniture for this facility, and the Computing Center 
will provide workstations, networking, and user assistance.  
The new facility will be available for use by the university 
community all the hours the library is open.