Construction On Temple University's New Library Ramping Up
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - With graduation and the end of the spring semester in the rear-view mirror, construction of a new library on Temple University's campus is shifting into high gear.
The new three-and-a-half story library will replace the Paley Library on the main campus in North Philadelphia.
Joseph Lucia, Temple's dean of libraries, says this new, contemporary library is not just about the things in it, but about community connections:
"The new library treats books as important, but also treats the space for people to learn and engage with each other as at least equally important if not more important."
Lucia says the library, being built at the heart of the campus, will contain quiet reading spaces as well as open study areas, a cafe, and much more:
"It will have some unique technology. It will have a large data visualization studio. It will have a maker's space. It will have many small meeting rooms for groups from the size of let's say two people who want to work together to a seminar size room that might have twelve or 15 people."
He says the new library is expected to be completed and open by the fall of 2018.