Work has begun on grading and paving outside the north entrance, from the parking lot behind the library. For your safety, these doors have been locked during this phase of the project. The south entrance on the lakeside will be the only entrance. We appreciate your patience in these final stages of our expansion and renovation!
Archive for the 'Expansion and Renovation' Category
Library entrance from parking lot temporarily closed
Published July 9, 2008 Expansion and Renovation , Hours and Special Alerts 2 CommentsTags: construction, doors, entrance, expansion, renovation
Expansion & Renovation Update
Published June 3, 2008 Expansion and Renovation , Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: construction, expansion, renovation, warehouse
Never let it be said that we don’t respond to your concerns! 
We came across the following quote in the May 29 Connect Statesboro. As you might have noticed, they publish a column of anonymous call-in complaints, “That Blows.”
We came across the following quote in the May 29 Connect Statesboro. As you might have noticed, they publish a column of anonymous call-in complaints, “That Blows.”“It blows that GSU has been doing construction on the library since dirt was invented. Every time I try to check out books they have to order ‘em from the warehouse. What warehouse? Where’s it at, just let me go there.”
It has indeed been a long construction process, and we’re excited about the upcoming completion. During the construction, we have used off-campus storage for some of our lesser-used items. When you request an item from the Warehouse, we gladly have it delivered here for you. These items, after being checked back in, are then kept in the Library. We appreciate your patience during this time! (By the way, the Warehouse isn’t open to visitors because it’s dimly lit, not staffed, and not conducive to public access. Sorry!)
You’ve probably noticed the already-painted section of the building through the windows. Yes, this does mean we’re closer to completion! In fact, this month they will remove the temporary wall separating the two sections. Since that area will remain under construction, we have already begun placing temporary barriers (upturned furniture, etc.) to prevent people from wandering into a danger zone.
Our live webcams are still in action, and more details on the project are here.
Here are some other plans for the coming months:
August 4
Library shelving, collections and existing furniture begin moving into renovated building
August 26 - September 5
Delivery & installation of public furniture
September 8 – 19
Second round of furniture delivery & installation in renovated building (the area currently closed off; this is the original library structure)
September 22 (VERY TENTATIVE)
EXPANDED/RENOVATED BUILDING OPENS
December 11
ALL MOVING IS COMPLETE
December 11 – 24
Delivery & installation of furniture in addition (the area currently being used)
December 24
PROJECT IS COMPLETE
Our Flickr Gallery
Published February 5, 2008 Events and Exhibits , Expansion and Renovation , Resources and Services 0 CommentsTags: arc, construction, flickr, images, photos, webcams
Ms. Debra Skinner, Catalog Librarian, serves on the editorial board of Zach’s News. She has been building a digital gallery of images from Henderson Library. Check out the “before” picture of the building, photos of the construction project, behind-the-scenes shots of building the ARC collection, and more to come. Also remember our live webcams of the construction are here. Our growing image gallery is here; feel free to add your own tags and comments! We’ll be featuring various images here in Zach’s News from time to time. Thanks, Debra!
Expansion and Renovation Update
Published January 28, 2008 Expansion and Renovation , Hours and Special Alerts , Resources and Services 1 CommentTags: a-z, arc, bound periodicals, e-journals, expansion, government, renovation
There is a good possibility the renovation of the Zach S. Henderson
Library will be completed in time that the full building, housing all
our collections, furnishings, and personnel, will be available to the
public by the beginning of fall classes in August of 2008. Meanwhile,
in February of 2008 Georgia Southern University must raze the building
in which the Federal and Georgia documents collection is now temporarily housed. Therefore the documents collection will have to be temporarily housed in other quarters between February and August of 2008.
We have begun moving the most recently published, most often-used, and
reference government documents materials to the publicly accessible
portion of Henderson Library’s third floor. Government documents on
microform will be placed in a storage area on the Library’s bottom
floor and items will be paged for patrons upon demand. In addition, the law collection (which had been housed in the temporary government documents building) will be located on the third floor of the Library. Service for these collections will be offered from the Information Services Desk on the third floor. More information on the relocation is at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/govdocsmove.html, and more information on the government document collection and services is available at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/
In order to make room for the government documents and the law collection, the Bound Periodicals published earlier than 2000 have been relocated to the ARC (Automated Retrieval Collection) for the time being. We look forward to having more space on open shelves following the expansion. Thank you for your patience during the final exciting months of the expansion and renovation! As always, our many e-journals are available in our Electronic Journals A-Z list, as well as in the library catalog.
View live webcams of the construction for the library’s expansion & renovation. Please note that this page may load slowly, and requires Java.
