{"id":49651,"date":"2018-03-02T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49651"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:13:33","slug":"grand-opening-to-be-held-for-renovated-brock-library-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/03\/grand-opening-to-be-held-for-renovated-brock-library-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand opening to be held for renovated Brock library space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">A new concept of study space will become reality at Brock next week when a state-of-the-art learning environment officially transforms the fifth floor of the James A. Gibson Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">On Tuesday March 6, the Children\u2019s Educational Foundation of Canada (CEFC) Commons will be unveiled, a $460,000 project that has created 3,600 square feet of innovative library space where design inspires creative and collaborative activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">University Librarian Mark Robertson said that libraries were once highly formal environments primarily designed as book repositories, but that is no longer the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Our goal was to create a fresh and modern environment that could accommodate a variety of learning styles, so you&#8217;ll see areas for individual study and group work, as well as lounge-like areas with soft seating and, yes, even bean bags,\u201d said Robertson. \u201cWe expect the fifth floor will be known as a destination for students on campus. We are thrilled with the result.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Brock community is invited to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, March 6 at 11 a.m. on the fifth floor of the James A. Gibson Library to officially open the new space. <\/strong>The event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The renovation was made possible by a generous donation from the Children\u2019s Educational Foundation of Canada. The $263,000 gift supported the fifth floor project, while also contributing to Brock\u2019s Archives and Special Collections endowment and the purchase of library resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Parking is available in Lot D for those attending the grand reopening.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new concept of study space will become reality at Brock next week when a state-of-the-art learning environment officially transforms the fifth floor of the James A. Gibson Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":49652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[2701,6364,6365,25,4417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49658,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49651\/revisions\/49658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}