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Architect Helmut Jahn explains how his aesthetic choices for the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library reflect the University of Chicago’s guiding ideals of inquiry and knowledge. Video by Tom Rossiter; interview by Carment Marti; editing by Mark Lofgren; original music by Jim Tullio; sound recording by Mick Clemente; video assistance by Andrew Bruah; styling and makeup by Cindy Surman
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. With its soaring elliptical dome and prime location on campus, the Mansueto Library's Grand Reading Room, which opened on May 16, 2011, provides an inviting space for rigorous scholarship in an array of fields.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Special Collections Research Center celebrated the opening of its new state-of-the-art Exhibition Gallery and renovated spaces located on the pathway between the Joseph Regenstein Library and the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library on May 18, 2011. The new and renovated spaces provide flexible, technology-equipped facilities for the presentation, interpretation, and consultation of primary sources by individuals, groups, and classes. The program included welcoming remarks by Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost and John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Physics; Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian; and Alice Schreyer, Assistant Director for Special Collections and Preservation and Director, Special Collections Research Center. Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History, Departments of History and Art History, delivered "Reflections on Special Collections.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Special Collections Research Center celebrated the opening of its new state-of-the-art Exhibition Gallery and renovated spaces located on the pathway between the Joseph Regenstein Library and the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library on May 18, 2011. The new and renovated spaces provide flexible, technology-equipped facilities for the presentation, interpretation, and consultation of primary sources by individuals, groups, and classes. The program included welcoming remarks by Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost and John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Physics; Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian; and Alice Schreyer, Assistant Director for Special Collections and Preservation and Director, Special Collections Research Center. Neil Harris, Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History, Departments of History and Art History, delivered "Reflections on Special Collections.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Take a video tour of the Mansueto Library construction site with Mike Natarus, University of Chicago's Senior Project Manager, Capital Project Delivery, Facilities Services. Natarus guides viewers through the evolution of the project from November 2008 to November 2010. (Construction is ongoing and will be completed in Spring 2011.) See and learn about the building's major components: an underground book storage system within a slurry wall, conservation and digitization laboratories and a grand reading room at ground level, and a glass dome topping the structure. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is designed to take full advantage of technology to provide elite service to the scholarly community. A collection of immense scholarly value will be housed, preserved, and delivered in a state-of-the-art environment at the heart of campus.