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University of Florida to dedicate Library West on Jan. 26

The dedication ceremony for the renovated and expanded humanities and
social sciences library, Library West, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in
the library on the University of Florida campus.

Dale B. Canelas, director of university libraries, will open the ceremony,
followed by remarks from Bernie Machen, president of the University of
Florida.

Ralf Remshardt, associate professor and chairman of the university
libraries committee, will accept the building for the faculty. John Boyles,
president of the student body, will accept for the students.

Michael Connelly, UF alumnus and best-selling author, will present the
address "On Libraries." A former police reporter for the Los Angeles
Times, Connelly is the author of 11 acclaimed Harry Bosch thrillers,
including "Echo Park," published in 2006, and several stand-alone best
sellers, including the highly acclaimed legal thriller, "The Lincoln
Lawyer," which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list
in 2005. He has won numerous awards for his writing.

Library West opened in 1967 with 600,000 volumes and 600 study spaces
as the Graduate Research Library - the first in the southeastern United
States.

The library closed in December 2003, following many changes in
allocation and use of its space. Reopened in August 2006, the "new"
Library West is a campus center for study, collaboration, intellectual
exploration and access to the world of electronic information. Design
considerations for the new building included integration of electronic and
print resources, support for new teaching methodologies, the needs of
physically challenged students and the conditions required for the
preservation of paper-based collections. Designed to be the laboratory for
teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences, the aim
was to provide a comprehensive collection for advanced work combined
with electronic support for the integration of digital technologies, and to
meet the particular needs of both undergraduate and graduate students.

Compact shelving can hold 1.7 million volumes from the humanities and
social sciences, and the building can seat 1,400. The library has 20 group
study rooms, 84 graduate studies, 36 faculty studies, study booths, a
presentation area, digital media center, two training rooms, a graduate
student floor and 139 general-use computers.

Canelas said, "Library West is now poised to take its place at the very core of UF's scholarly life. No part of a
university is more the product of the intelligence of the past than its library. It is best seen as the cumulative
contributions of all those who have thought and have written, and then of those who have made it their concern to
preserve the record and pass it on."