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Caption: Dedication - Brookens Library (UIS) (Proceedings)
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access to the Public Affairs Center when it is completed, and will ultimately connect all buildings of the permanent campus. The first or lower level of the building includes the Acquisitions and Cataloging Departments, University Archives, Oral History Office, Media Department, and the library receiving area. Also on this level is a 200-seat auditorium equipped with facilities for forward and rear projection of films and slides. The auditorium is accessible from both the public concourse and the library. The library is entered on the plaza or second level, which contains the Circulation Department, Card Catalog, Interlibrary Loans, Reference Collection, Indexes and Abstracts Collection, Illinois and Federal Documents, the Get Help Here desk, and library faculty and administration offices. /ersity nUoi systems. prising mofl tstrocted o f reinopen column - o f space arrangeand thej .'rime?*-" ••'•' The third level has the remainder of the Federal Documents and the newspaper and periodical Serials Collection in both hard copy and microform. This floor also contains classrooms and faculty offices, as does the fourth level. The General Book Collection and the oversize books are on level four. Each level has a smoking lounge o f f the main staircase. The nonlibrary portion of the building has 24 classrooms and 150 faculty and administrative offices. Throughout the building, the walls, floors, and other designs have followed the lines of the over-all roughly hexagonal shape. The ceilings are bare to show the aesthetic beauty of the massive concrete forms, which allow the floors to support exceptionally heavy loads typical of libraries. The antron and nylon carpeting has metallic fibers grade mass o f the ; full
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