#BEAT STUDY SPACE PATTEE PATTERNO PLUS#
Under and adjacent to the staircase are three more living walls plus a variety of seating areas, a new entrance leading to the ground-floor Donald W. Beyond is the new two-level central atrium and its staircase leading to Pattee Library’s first floor. Immediately to the right of the ground floor entrance is an eight-panel, 4K interactive touchscreen, a technology feature that can be reserved by students for showcasing their work. For added convenience, coffee and snack vending machines are found to the left of the entrance, and in its northeastern-most corner is a dedicated lactation room.
Throughout, mobile dry-erase whiteboards complement nearly all of the Collaboration Commons’ fixed walls, which also feature whiteboards for group notations and brainstorming. The room itself has a collapsible rear glass wall and center dividers to further customize its use. Near the middle is a large multipurpose room with configurable options ranging from a single 175-seat audience to dozens of small-group tables. Lined along floor-to-ceiling windows, counter-height work spaces offer embedded power ports and new views of Sparks Building and West Halls. Immediately to the left is the entrance to the Collaboration Commons, which houses 16 enclosed group study rooms - which can be reserved at - plus more than two dozen open groupings of moveable tables and chairs, all of which feature embedded or adjacent power ports. Past the ground-floor entrance doors, visitors are greeted with a staffed welcome desk, lounge seating and the first of four lush living walls, a popular feature in the existing Knowledge Commons. These features provide outdoor areas for online productivity and recharging capabilities for powered devices, as well as expansive views from the inside. It features deep-inset stone bench and lounge furniture seating, low-level landscaping, expanded Wi-Fi and black lighting towers encasing USB and grounded power ports. Its new exterior, leveled to offer a gentle sloping, accessible-friendly entrance into a larger ground-floor lobby, is known as the Dr. Keiko Miwa Ross Global News Center and social sciences collections, found respectively on the first and second floors of Paterno Library - has been opened up entirely to form the new Collaboration Commons. The former ground floor News and Microforms Library - from which collections have been incorporated into the new Dr. Open 24 hours, five days a week plus extended weekend hours whenever classes are in session, the new, modern spaces encompass a former outdoor courtyard and updated ground floor, southwest-facing entrance of the West Pattee Library portion of the building complex. “We hope we have delivered, perhaps even exceeded, their expectations for effective academic study space, and we look forward to seeing students, faculty, staff, alumni and our many visitors using these four expanded levels of Pattee Library as we continue to evolve those spaces for improved student instruction, as well as advanced research, and data and publishing consultation services tailored to graduate students and faculty.” Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. “Today marks the culmination of a 14-month, two-phase construction project, years of visioning and planning, and countless hours seeking and considering students’ input into the spaces and features they told us they most needed to support their productivity,” said Barbara I. 22) in Pattee Library and Paterno Library on Penn State’s University Park campus. Penn State University Libraries’ newest space, a four-story expansion and ground-floor renovation known as the Collaboration Commons and Central Atrium, opened Thursday afternoon (Aug.
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