SCU Opens New Learning Commons, Technology Center, and Library

Last Monday, March 24, Santa Clara University will officially open a new 194,000 square feet of buildings, Harrington learning commodities, sobrato Technology Centre, and orradre Library. The 95 million US dollars fund, the Fund has started construction in mid-2006, will accommodate traditional texts, rare books and archives together with the latest high-tech tools and resources. "This building has been designed for the people and not for the materials to offer a variety of space, and we have students and teachers need learning, teaching and academic activities, and the design also makes it relatively easy, we have to adapt to it , a new style of interaction learning new ways and new kinds of information resources, as we enter the future, "said Ron, Danielson, the Serious Crimes Unit vice provost for information services and administrative information officer.besides library 1100000 volume collection, building collaborative features 25 studios, multimedia laboratories, television facilities, wireless network in the entire 1050 readers seats electrical connections and cable ports. High-tech library facilities, including climate control in the storage and work space for the valuable archives and special collections, automated retrieval systems, shelving capacity to 1 million to the incubator space for educational technology experiments and real cafã # 169. For more information, please visit www.scu.edu / newlibrary.