{"616908":{"#nid":"616908","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Library Open House Feb. 6","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library will host an open house for students, faculty and staff Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 10-2 in the newly refurbished Crosland Tower.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event, which features hourly tours of the Library, includes a self-guided portion with the Library staff who manage each specialty space. Refreshments will be provided.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETours of the facility will be held hourly beginning at the Bobby Dodd Way\/Grove-level entrance at 10 a.m. To secure a spot on a tour, visit our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/forms.library.gatech.edu\/node\/47\u0022\u003Eonline sign-up\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe tower, closed for renovations since January 2016, features eight stories of archives, classroom, study, and studio space for Tech\u0026rsquo;s students, faculty, and staff. Included are spaces and technology for data visualization, high-performance computing, multimedia studies, collaboration, and iterative design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the last 36 months, crews removed the brick fa\u0026ccedil;ade of Crosland Tower, built in 1968 to house a rapidly growing collection of books. Originally, the building was meant to keep out sunlight harmful to the books, housing stacks on seven-foot high, reinforced floors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn its new iteration, Crosland Tower boasts loads of natural light and soaring, multi-floor atriums mirroring the midcentury modern architecture of Price Gilbert Memorial Library, now under renovation until 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen complete, both buildings will more than double seating capacity while cutting energy consumption by nearly 60 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the ongoing transformation, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elibrary.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or join the conversation on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeorgiaTechLibrary\/\u0022\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTLibrary\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E, or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gtlibrary\u0022\u003EInstagram\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library will host an open house for students, faculty and staff Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 10-2 in the newly refurbished Crosland Tower.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Library will host an open house for students, faculty and staff Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 10-2 in the newly refurbished Crosland Tower. "}],"uid":"28817","created_gmt":"2019-01-25 19:35:08","changed_gmt":"2019-01-28 14:31:44","author":"Jason Wright","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-02-06T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-02-06T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-02-06T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-02-06 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-02-06 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-02-06 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"616960":{"id":"616960","type":"image","title":"Library Open House Feb. 6","body":null,"created":"1548685879","gmt_created":"2019-01-28 14:31:19","changed":"1548685879","gmt_changed":"2019-01-28 14:31:19","alt":"","file":{"fid":"234808","name":"Screen Shot 2019-01-28 at 9.30.02 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-28%20at%209.30.02%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-28%20at%209.30.02%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1782441,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-01-28%20at%209.30.02%20AM.png?itok=ssSXK-pW"}}},"media_ids":["616960"],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"5295","name":"Open House"},{"id":"3824","name":"event"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}