This morning I had a tour of the Spencer Art Reference Library’s new location in the Bloch Building with the head of the Museum’s library services. I learned about many of the new features and expanded services as well as some cool facts and figures. I will share some of those with you in later postings.
Today, I am focusing on the new reading room (see previous post). I learned that there will be several different sections of the reading room including the main area with chairs and tables for the more studious minded, another area with four new PCs that have full Internet access and, at the end of the room, will be the “lounge.”
The lounge will have a comfortable L-shaped bench (shown here without its cushy padding), some very nice leather chairs and a couple of reading lamps. This reading nook will be the perfect spot to look through some of the library’s newest books, catch up with the latest art periodicals or peruse some of the library’s 40,000 auction catalogues.