Hartley Library Refurbishment Project 20022007 From Accretion to Integration

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Hartley Library Refurbishment Project2002-2007Fr
om Accretion to Integration
Mark Brown University Librarian SCONUL Buildings
Visit 13 November 2008

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Pre-Project Profile

• Main Library of the University
• Science, Social Science and Humanities
  collections
• 23,785 users
• 483,135 metres of print materials
• 4,792 metres special collections
• 78 hours per week opening hours

• 1919 Move of Hartley Institution to Highfield
• 1935 Central wing built
• 1959 Extension on three floors to the rear
• 1970 Special collections facilities on Level 4
• 1988 Further extension on Level 5 and
  remodelling

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Objectives environment

• Create an integrated learning and research
  environment from a series of disparate parts
• Provide high quality, flexible seating with IT
  access throughout
• Provide a balance informal, quiet and group study
  space through natural zoning
• Improve access and flexibility for users with
  disabilities
• Create a new reading room and seminar room in
  Special Collections to develop student use of the
  collections
• Create a high quality exhibition facility and
  display space
• Configure entrance and reception areas to provide
  a café and informal learning space and to
  facilitate longer opening hours

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Objectives materials

• Reorganise stock to provide for expansion
• Configure collections to facilitate recovery of
  space in the medium term
• Provide adjacent access for print and e-resources
• Provide dedicated areas for music, film and
  microfoms
• Increase the holding capacity for archives to
  allow for 20 years of accessions

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Post Project Profile

• 4,100 m2 new build
• 8,859m2 refurbished space
• 1,276 study places
• 21 group study bookable spaces
• 296 IT places with wireless throughout
• 33,493 metres capacity shelving
• 7,101 metres in archives

• total cost 12,921,796
• Exhibition space has been the venue for a series
  of high quality events
• Café defined as a central hub facility and has
  been extended
• Has absorbed one site library and about to absorb
  another.so is FULL
• Students starting to complain...

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Credits.

• Consultant architects
• Wilson Mason Partners
• Quantity surveyors
• Robert Jackson Associates
• Structural Consultants
• Anthony Ward Partnership
• Mechanical Electrical
• Atelier 10

• Principal Contractors
• Bluestone PLC
• Furniture
• Tangent Solutions
• Shelving
• Ecospace Ltd
• Funders
• HEFCE, HLF, Jewish Claims Conference, John
  Hansard Trust, and the University itself

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Lessons Environment

• Research space
• Group study space
• Types of individual space
• Gallery and exhibition space
• Café space

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Lessons Materials

• Not as much extra shelving as you might think
• Assumptions about rate of disposal of material
• Assumptions about rate of acquisition of material
• Closure of two libraries in 2006 and 2009

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Lessons Services

• Reception
• Enquiry services
• Issue desk

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