What organizations and functions will the Hunt Library house?
About 63% of the building will house library functions, including user seating, technology-equipped collaborative spaces, collections, and work spaces for library staff. The building will also house the Institute for Emerging Issues and a number of spaces for university administration. What sorts of study spaces will the Library contain? The building will recognize the various needs of different user groups—graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members, and researchers—and will offer spaces tailored to those unique demands, including a Research Commons, a Graduate Commons, a Skyline Reading Room, a Creativity Zone, and a Teaching and Visualization Lab, as well as many group study rooms and individual study seats. At this point, 54 group study rooms are in the plan. Because our students and faculty are often in the library for hours at a time, they need a safe, convenient, in-building area to grab a snack or take a break without substantially interrupting work time. The Hunt Libr
