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Grainger Engineering Library
The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (GELIC) is a library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Grainger College of Engineering for all disciplines of engineering at the university. It is situated on the north side of the Bardeen Quad on the engineering campus along Springfield Avenue. It is the largest library in the United States for the study of engineering. It is one of several "departmental" libraries that constitute the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University Library.
The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center was designed to be a model for future academic libraries. It was made possible by William Wallace Grainger, a University of Illinois electrical engineering graduate, class of 1919. He made his fortune by launching a small, mail-order electrical supplies and components business that eventually grew into W. W. Grainger, a Fortune 500 industrial supply company. He felt a professional commitment to make technology accessible to everyone, and it was in that spirit that his son, David Grainger, donated more than $18 million to fund the construction of the new library Information Center.[original research?] In recognition of his contribution, a brass relief of Grainger was placed in the first floor lobby of the library.
The Grainger Engineering Library was dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the University of Illinois' foundation, October 14, 1994. The proceedings, entitled a "Gateway to a New Era", established the largest engineering library in the country, with over 92,000 square feet (8,500 m2) holding more than 300,000 volumes. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was a purely digital affair. President Stanley Ikenberry, Chancellor Michael Aiken, and David Grainger, representing his father, William Wallace Grainger, pressed assigned areas on a computer touch screen to change a computerized red ribbon into a visual explosion of fireworks.
The Grainger Library contains five different levels, with a center area, west area, and east area. On the first floor center area are the south main entrance, the north entrance, the main circulation desk, a computer area, and a printing station. In the fall of 2015, a coffee shop was added behind the elevators. The west area of the first floor contains quiet study spaces with desks for multiple people to work together, and the east area is mostly administration offices.
The second and third floors are entirely quiet floors. On the second and third floor, the center area contains a two-story Main Reading Gallery, which can seat 1,254 people. The west and east area both have two sections, a one-story area on each floor and two-story reading galleries at the ends that can each accommodate approximately 100 people. The galleries are also used for special events and dinners. Books are mostly located on the third floor west and east areas, with some in the second floor east area. The second floor west area mostly contains study carrels.
The fourth floor contains the Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE), which has tutors and exam study sessions for students. The east part of the center area contains an EWS (Engineering Workstation) computer lab with Windows-based computers, while the west part has collaboration tables and frosted glass that acts as whiteboards. There are two large rooms used for exam study sessions and staffed with tutors. The west area contains more collaboration tables, and is surrounded with group study rooms which students can reserve online. The east area is a quiet study carrel area.
The basement of Grainger is a quiet floor with large tables in the center area and west area. The east area contains a computer lab that is operated as a computer-based testing facility.
The facility contains three large seminar rooms (seating around 50 people) and four smaller conference rooms. When the building opened, it had 60 networked computers, 100 terminals, seven information kiosks, and six servers. The building offers group study rooms, individual study carrels, faculty and scholar studies and conference rooms. It was so technically advanced that the furniture had to be custom-designed because no one had ever had data and power connected to every seat on this scale before.[citation needed]
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Grainger Engineering Library
The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (GELIC) is a library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Grainger College of Engineering for all disciplines of engineering at the university. It is situated on the north side of the Bardeen Quad on the engineering campus along Springfield Avenue. It is the largest library in the United States for the study of engineering. It is one of several "departmental" libraries that constitute the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University Library.
The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center was designed to be a model for future academic libraries. It was made possible by William Wallace Grainger, a University of Illinois electrical engineering graduate, class of 1919. He made his fortune by launching a small, mail-order electrical supplies and components business that eventually grew into W. W. Grainger, a Fortune 500 industrial supply company. He felt a professional commitment to make technology accessible to everyone, and it was in that spirit that his son, David Grainger, donated more than $18 million to fund the construction of the new library Information Center.[original research?] In recognition of his contribution, a brass relief of Grainger was placed in the first floor lobby of the library.
The Grainger Engineering Library was dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the University of Illinois' foundation, October 14, 1994. The proceedings, entitled a "Gateway to a New Era", established the largest engineering library in the country, with over 92,000 square feet (8,500 m2) holding more than 300,000 volumes. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was a purely digital affair. President Stanley Ikenberry, Chancellor Michael Aiken, and David Grainger, representing his father, William Wallace Grainger, pressed assigned areas on a computer touch screen to change a computerized red ribbon into a visual explosion of fireworks.
The Grainger Library contains five different levels, with a center area, west area, and east area. On the first floor center area are the south main entrance, the north entrance, the main circulation desk, a computer area, and a printing station. In the fall of 2015, a coffee shop was added behind the elevators. The west area of the first floor contains quiet study spaces with desks for multiple people to work together, and the east area is mostly administration offices.
The second and third floors are entirely quiet floors. On the second and third floor, the center area contains a two-story Main Reading Gallery, which can seat 1,254 people. The west and east area both have two sections, a one-story area on each floor and two-story reading galleries at the ends that can each accommodate approximately 100 people. The galleries are also used for special events and dinners. Books are mostly located on the third floor west and east areas, with some in the second floor east area. The second floor west area mostly contains study carrels.
The fourth floor contains the Center for Academic Resources in Engineering (CARE), which has tutors and exam study sessions for students. The east part of the center area contains an EWS (Engineering Workstation) computer lab with Windows-based computers, while the west part has collaboration tables and frosted glass that acts as whiteboards. There are two large rooms used for exam study sessions and staffed with tutors. The west area contains more collaboration tables, and is surrounded with group study rooms which students can reserve online. The east area is a quiet study carrel area.
The basement of Grainger is a quiet floor with large tables in the center area and west area. The east area contains a computer lab that is operated as a computer-based testing facility.
The facility contains three large seminar rooms (seating around 50 people) and four smaller conference rooms. When the building opened, it had 60 networked computers, 100 terminals, seven information kiosks, and six servers. The building offers group study rooms, individual study carrels, faculty and scholar studies and conference rooms. It was so technically advanced that the furniture had to be custom-designed because no one had ever had data and power connected to every seat on this scale before.[citation needed]