{"616983":{"#nid":"616983","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Library Open House","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\u0026nbsp;\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\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Elibrary.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or join the conversation on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeorgiaTechLibrary\/\u0022\u003EFacebook\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/GTLibrary\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E, or\u0026nbsp;\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":"","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":"33693","created_gmt":"2019-01-28 18:26:31","changed_gmt":"2019-01-28 18:26:31","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616323":{"id":"616323","type":"image","title":"Crosland Tower","body":null,"created":"1547481427","gmt_created":"2019-01-14 15:57:07","changed":"1547481427","gmt_changed":"2019-01-14 15:57:07","alt":"The Library still houses books, including the in-house science fiction collection","file":{"fid":"234588","name":"19C10302-P58-027_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19C10302-P58-027_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/19C10302-P58-027_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1139748,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/19C10302-P58-027_web.jpg?itok=D37wqgws"}}},"media_ids":["616323"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166849","name":"HSOC Blog"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}