Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1960 [PAGE 76]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The rapid growth, quantitatively and qualitatively, of the University of Illinois Library is a remarkable phenomenon. Here is the third largest university library in America, and probably in the world. The Library is one of the strongest bonds, holding an outstanding faculty to the University, and is an important influence in attracting top-notch graduate and professional students. No university can be truly great without a great library, and Illinois' reputation is based in no small degree upon t h e possession of such a library. Furthermore, a library is never finished, for a library that has stopped growing is dead, and soon loses much of its interest and value for t h e scholar. Under today's conditions, it is inconceivable that scholars could be developed and trained and carry on their work without access to libraries. Even those subject fields which depend primarily on laboratories must support strong libraries in order to avoid repetition of effort and to serve as points of departure for new scientific advances. It may be fairly stated that an adequate library is not only the basis of all teaching and study, but is an essential condition for research, without which additions are unlikely to be made to the sum of human knowledge. T o assure that the University of Illinois Library will continue to hold its outstanding position of leadership among the world's university libraries and make its maximum contribution to the University community, the Building Program Committee recommends highest priority for the proposed addition. Completion of the Art Building (Department of Art) i. Size — 12,000 net square feet; 20,000 gross square feet 2. Space Net Sq. Ft. a. Present assigned space 38,116 Space under construction 46,303 I Space to be vacated upon completion of the first stage 3,332 Total of present assigned space JI ,087 b. Estimated deficiency for present program (if all the Department existing space is retained there will be no shortage for present program) c. Estimate of total additional space required through 1969 (includes 'b' above) 36,953 ; d. Space to be vacated upon completion of project Location Net Sq. Ft. Proposed Reassignment Survey Building 2,45-Tl Sixth Street Building 6,195 Razed to provide sites for new con505 S. Goodwin 1,482^ struction 1009 W. Nevada 3,473 m o VV. Illinois 3.920J College of Engineering Civil Engineering Hall 3,890 r College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lincoln Hall ,339 College of Commerce and Business David Kinley Hall 2,031 Administration Statement of Relative Urgency a. Projects within the College in the order of priority as submitted by the College, 1957. Project Order of Priority Architecture 1 Art 2 Music 3 Small Homes Council 4 City Planning and Landscape Architecture 5 University Bands 6 b. Excerpts from the College's statement of relative urgency. The Department has been forced to limit enrollment of freshmen and of graduate students in painting and graphics. It has not been able to add needed sections in several service courses. The number of students in sections has increased far beyond the point where proper education procedures can be maintained. There is great need for more studio space for present staff members. Only a quarter of the staff have such space. This will be an increasingly difficult situation in attracting new staff members. c. The space included in the first stage of the Art Building is not sufficient to allow the vacation of any of t h e Department's existing space except 13,332