Issue date: 7/10/02 Section: News

Media Credit: cathy crater

Textbook Service's new location in University Park is being renovated for the fall.

Textbook Service, now in the basement of Lovejoy Library, will be moving to 200 University Park Drive.

"They are completing the demolition of the existing space," campus architect Rick Klein said.

The existing building has been home to a number of groups. The Concrete Institute and Small Business Development Center offices will remain in the building.

The demolition should be completed by the end of this week.

Klein said the next step in renovation is electrical, heating, venting and air-conditioning work.

The only change to the outside of the building will be the installation of two doors for a fire escape and a delivery center.

The Textbook Service's new area was originally conference and storage rooms. "We've tried to reuse as many existing walls as possible," Klein said.

The contractor has set Labor Day as the finished date for construction.

Shelving and counters will then be installed.

Klein said the university bought new counters and shelving because the arrangement is different from in the old library space.

Klein compared the new checkout counters to those of a grocery store.

Klein said the inside work should be complete sometime around October.

Textbook Service will be on the lower level of the building and accessible from the red parking lots. Students will pick up fall textbooks in the library.

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