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- using the following links will help you visualize these ideas:
http://www.clcillinois.edu/maps/pdf/cwing1.pdf &
http://www.clcillinois.edu/maps/pdf/bwing1.pdf
Last night I had a dream. Of rows and rows of books for everybody! Not so in the Murphy Memorial Library here at CLC. The first floor is the circ desk, study area, Artectera, Testing Center, Tutoring Emporium, offices, a classroom, and an open computer lab. Let's move some of that crap to another part of CLC. How about Southlake?
Ha. Just kidding. I am thinking: "Those old Electronic Lab classrooms could be converted into a large enough space (actually by floor space, this new lab space IDEA OF MINE would be now larger than currently in the LRC. Strike that, I mean in the Library!) Part of the new space would have to have at least one or two small offices built-in for monitor/lab rats.
The rooms I choose are: B155 & B156 or perhaps the old Electronics labs - or just one of them or one-and-a-half (again, B-wing)? Well, maybe. At least, out of the library, the users wouldn't have to be as quiet as they seem to be in the Library". Most people are fairly quiet in most libraries. But, in a converted classroom? Naw. Why?
You want to talk about intake? Look at Personnel. Look at Counseling.
Think "INSIDE" the box now. What do you see? A Foundation. I first see the CLC Foundation moving.
What I mean in the Theatre of my mind:
Move CLC Foundation into B153 & B154 (re apply classroom assignments there)
HR Moves to B128 & B129 & B135 through B139 (re apply classroom assignments there) & Hall is closed off with Front & Rear Entry doors Move Counseling into
B120 & B121 B122 & B123 stay as classrooms for training (NSO meetings, conferences, etc.)
B142 becomes Music Dept & Radio Audio Audition lab & classroom - B143 becomes Control Booth & waiting Area (re apply classroom assignments there)
CLC Radio moves to B162a,b,c & B141 & B140 (mostly as CD Storage/Audio Isolation for new Personnel offices)
LRC comp lab moves to B118 Financial Aid moves to B119
B117 REMAINS as Language Lab/Classroom
Registration, Records, & Student Dev Offices move across hall to all other (now) unused areas (actually gaining space because of Stairwell in current location taking away floor space)
Vacated Reg, StuDev, Records, now becomes the NEW BOOKSTORE moved from downstairs (mostly). Install dumb-waiter to "go below" for book storage.
In part of old bookstore (basement) a "quiet lounge" can be installed for students, as well as a STAFF LOUNGE for C-wing & b-wingers - with a wide carpeted Spiral Staircase from the NEW book store (NEAR and just outside the front doors of the NEW book store so when store is closed, people can still get to the newer lounges.)
Who did I leave out?
Oh ya, Theatre now has the vacated areas from old Personnel & old Foundation Offices to use!
Well, that's ONE idea of mine. And, obviously, the logistics would need to be worked out a little bit.
The StuDev/Bookstore moves can't start until Financial Aid moves and the Theatre can't move until personnel and or Foundation move.
The part-time faculty offices (currently being proposed for the Newer CLC Radio hub) could be moved to B132 thru B134 while B134 moves into StuDev or FinAid or Counseling or HR - whichever area is most appropriate.
The proposed new proximity of the Radio/Music Dept Audio Audition room would make wiring consolidation easy AND events programmed in the Audio room could be broadcast live.
Program Board Events held in the B-Court could be more easily broadcast live as well.
Moving the Radio Station there would be closer to Theatre and Main Lobby (if hope springs eternal - and I don't mean hot springs!)
The proposed vacated space of the current Student Activities area could become a new area for Campus Safety.
Also, when thinking of the newer areas described, there's no reason why the newer personnel area proposed couldn't swap with the newer Student Activities' area proposed (still with the idea of the double-doored hallway closed providing for extra floor space)!
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