The president of the University of Missouri system has donated $1 million to help finance a project to link students, professors and administrators at the university’s four campuses by creating virtual conference rooms. The MU virtual conference room will be located in Ellis Library.
The Government Documents Microfiche “Cave” on the 1st floor of Ellis Library is being dismantled in order to make space for this new video conferencing center. Some microformat collections are being moved from that room to off site storage, some collections are moving to the Engineering Library, some are moving to a storeroom on Ellis’ ground floor and a small amount of remaining collections will be moved closer to the Government Documents office. Shelves around the perimeter of Room 201 will be a temporary holding area for microcard collections which are destined for off site storage. The Documents Cave is scheduled to be cleared by the end of December. Construction on the new video conferencing center may begin as early as January 2009.
For more information about President Forsee’s gift to the University of Missouri System, you can read this St. Louis Post Dispatch blog post, “Forsee, the “Sprint guy”, gives $1 million gift to the University of Missouri to buy AT&T technology.”