The style will be pretty much what you see in Bostock and in Perkins 1st floor and Lower Floor 2. There are some web pages on the renovation project that haven’t been updated in a long time, and similar information was on a kiosk in the entry hall of Perkins, but these don’t include interior views or floor plans besides a few artist’s sketches of interiors. The specific floor plans aren’t publicly available, but there will be a mixture of book storage, open study areas, group study rooms, individual study carrels, classrooms (in the Perkins Lower Floor 1), and staff offices.

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Our Circulation Dept. manages the carrel reservations, so you should check with them regarding your placement on the waiting list. Yes, you should move up as others move on in life.  If there are carrels that seem free, it must be that whoever has them keeps them empty.  During renovations, there will be a lower number of grad student and faculty closed study carrels since some of that space is needed for library staff left without offices.  This should be remedied within a couple of years.

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Most of the larger women’s restrooms include a couch, in addition to the required restroom equipment.  If you’re a guy, please crash on one of the big chairs in the public study areas in the library.

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Using mattresses is cheating. You’re supposed to use the floor (the concrete part, at that).  Regarding the second comment, can’t you plan ahead enough to purchase supplies at the lobby store in the Bryan Center or at a local drug store?

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To each his own, and I hope that no one makes you attend events that you don’t care for (AP doesn’t even go to all library staff meetings or parties!). Sorry if you were trying to study in the library that Friday evening.

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Yes, to a limited extent.  Alumni can get a discounted borrower card (free for Perkins System plus Divinity; $75 for all campus libraries), but this does not give off-campus access to subscribed databases and e-journals.  If you come to the library, you’re free to use services and materials here.

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You might want to look back at 3342B regarding the effects of caffeine (summary: see MedLine Plus  from the National Library of Medicine to begin to sort through the health issues).  The renovation plans do include more group study rooms, but unfortunately during renovations of Perkins floors 2-4 many of them will need to be appropriated by library staff who need temporary office space.  Be aware that groups have priorities in group study rooms and staff may evict an individual if a group needs one.

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I hope you don’t have anything against libraries. It sounds a lot more distinguished than calling him “The Parking Deck” or “The Steam Plant.”

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To give you a ballpark idea, here are numbers, excluding reserves, for 2004-2005 (Initial Loans / Totals) for all Duke Libraries: 390,086 / 534,244 ; Perkins System + Divinity:  322,381 / 443,383 ; Ford: 29,209 / 36,625 ; Law: 24,370 / 36,166 ;  Med Center: 14,126 / 18,070.  “Perkins System” includes Lilly, Music, Vesic, Biology, Chemistry.  For Perkins only (not branches or professional schools): (Loans / Renewals / Totals) for 2004-05: 164,020 / 80,271 / 244,291 ;  for 2005-06: 142,333 / 79,721 / 222,054.

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There are some comfortable chairs and clean carpeting right near the main entrance across from the Circulation desk, next to those big picture windows looking through to the Von der Heyden Pavilion.  This is the best place from the standpoint of people who will read about it in the Chronicle’s police report and who will have a good story to tell after you’ve been expelled.

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