The following changes will be made before or during the Spring Semester to handle increased student need in Ellis Library due to the closing of Brady Commons:
- Two additional group study rooms (Room 2E21 and Room 3E21) are available for reservation.
- “The Cave” now holds the necessary furniture to temporarily enable its use as a study space. When construction begins for the teleconferencing room, this area will no longer be used as study space.
- Thirty new computers are available in the Information Commons.
- Two additional scan stations will be installed and available near the Information Commons by the beginning of this semester. One will be a Mac, and the other a PC. They will have internet access limited to the MU Web site (including Webmail) and printing through the print mart system. The scan stations will have access to the MU network and will allow students to use their MU email accounts, print and use their bengal space while using the scan station. Students will be able to scan articles and send to any university issued e-mail account including their own.
- Plans are in the works to have a dedicated computer for printing. The Journalism Library has already implemented an “express” printing station, and it has been successful.
- Administration is working with Campus Facilities to create more space and to provide additional tables and chairs in the immediate area of the Bookmark Café. It is expected that this will approximately double the Café’s current capacity. This expansion should occur in February.