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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 29

3. Excerpts from the College's Statement of Relative Urgency a. If t h e College of Commerce and Business Administration is to maintain and improve its position in education for business it must have more space and more suitable facilities immediately. David Kinley Hall was constructed thirty years ago at a time when education for business was at a considerably different level and character than is true today. It has become increasingly difficult to keep present programs and activities up to date and it has been impossible, because of lack of facilities, to initiate new programs which should be offered by a well-balanced College of Commerce. b. It is estimated t h a t next to the College of Education, the College of Commerce and Business Administration is the most crowded for their present program. The average net square feet of office space per staff member is as low as 86 net square feet with many of the staff in offices of less t h a n 25 square feet. During the past year it has been necessary to further disperse t h e College by assignment and remodeling one new property and relocating t h e Bureau of Community Planning in temporary quarters to release space in David Kinley Hall. The College has also asked t h e College of Journalism and Communications to vacate space in the Commerce-Fine and Applied Arts Annex to provide office facilities for their staff next fall. Completion of Physics Building 1. Size— 59,000 net square feet; 98,200 gross square feet 2. Space Net Sq. Ft. a. Present assigned space 90,645 Space under construction (some of this present space will be vacated upon completion of the space under construction) 45,000 b. Estimated deficiency for present program none c. Estimate of total additional space required through 1969 (includes 'b' above) 59 ,ooo d. Space to be vacated upon completion of project Location Net Sq. Ft. Proposed Reassignment Physics Building 53,561 Six departments of the College of Engineering will obtain some relief. The Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering will obtain major relief. 3. Statement of Relative Urgency The space presently under construction in the first stage of the new Physics Building will not provide the Department with sufficient facilities to allow the complete vacation of the old Physics Building. It will be necessary for the Department to continue the use of t h e lecture rooms and a large portion of the research space in t h a t building. The completion of the second stage of the new Physics Building will allow the reassignment of the old building and eliminate the necessity for construction during the ten-year period of an addition to the Transportation Building for General Engineering, space for the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, and give indirect relief to t h e Departments of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. T h e plans for the second stage are completed and can be released for bids without delay. This is in accordance with the plans for increasing the construction capacity at Urbana-Champaign. Seventh Addition to Library— Urbana-Champaign Library space needs are of four kinds: accommodations for readers, book storage, work room for library staff, and space for instruction. A stack addition would meet t h e book storage function. T h e proposed wing would provide urgently needed reading rooms, faculty studies, space for technical activities (acquisitions, book binding, cataloging, and photographic reproduction), and Library School classrooms. The Library now circulates approximately 1,000,000 books and acquires 100,000 volumes annually. No additions to reading room or study space for faculty and students or work rooms for the staff have been made since 1929 when 11,465 students were registered, and the staff numbered 91 instead of the present 246. The stack addition currently under construction was designed for a maximum capacity of 500,000 volumes. It does not provide the other facilities listed and which were requested last biennium.