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Library By NICK PARHAM If a size change in the Cooper Undergraduate Library, to seven times the present seating capacity of 3000, and a volume capacity of 1,500,000 can be imagined, then one may have an accurate image of the library in 1974. Expansion of the Undergraduate Library will be the largest single construction project in the history of the University with Dargan Con struction Company's bid of $6,517,000.00, work began in July. The building itself will be an enormous ex pansion southward and downward of Cooper into what is now fraternity quadrangle. When and where the fraternities will be moved is still undecided. Replacing the outdated McKissick Library, the new library will receive all of McKissick's books and materials plus incorporate the un dergraduate and education library holdings. Kenneth E. Toombs, USC's director of libraries has described the new building as, "the most important academic facility erected SHOP MON. & FRI. I0:C complete in 180 ThegeibastdsgnclsCsee floors. Four of them, the lower stacks floors, will be underground and will have identical features: each floor has a book capacity of 250,000 volumes and a seating capacity of 475. Each floor also will have locked enclosures which will be assigned individually to faculty members and graduate students engaged in research and writing and requiring extensive use. Larger study rooms, designed for four per sons each, will be on each of the four lower floors. An even larger seminar room, plus a large lounge, a typing room and an office are included. Most of the space in the lower floors will be taken up by stacks, part of the "0 miles of book shelves in the library," said Toombs. The basement floor will house the Univer sity's vast microfilms collection, the education and library science special sections, documents, current newspapers, and the use.4 Y Lagr0tdFros sigERV foNfup Son ech wllbeoneac o te ou lwe flor. n ve lrgr emnaLrom pls F lag T loug,atpn roomHE dY an.0 Ti are Horsesh< By NICK PARHAM b At one time or another in its 133 N year history, the USC Horseshoe a and its buildings have served as a L t 1 $ Federal military prison, meeting n if1 plaoe for the state legWsature, . I t Confederate hospital, and refugee in + i-cester durigg the fire that 1. destroyed much of (olumbla 0In 1900, historiao Charles A. $ Beard called the old campus "one a of the loveliest and most charming r in the nation." However, in the past several years the interior of the buildings t have begun to show their age producing "living conditions, which at best, were shoddy," . according to student body president David Spinazzolo, for mer president of the horseshoe. ' Realizing that something had to e) be done to stop the decline, the n Horseshoe Student Government iz began a year and a half ago to g develop plans for restoration. Using private sources for the most part, the students have come up with architectual renderings for both interior and exterior renovation. These plans are presently under study by the University. A recent $2.8 million ap propriation from the state has pushed the project to the point that the facelifting could begin as early as July 1973. The ten-year project will project "learning resources" area. "The latter area," said Toombs, "will contain modern audio visual facilities and will be left flexible to take advantage of future developments in the ex citing methods of electronics learning." The library's nerve center will beon the main floor, which has the only public entrance to the huge building. Upon entering, a user will see the circulation desk, periodicals, display, reference and bibliography sections. The technical services area--order, serials and catalog departments--are functionally situated at the rear of the main floor. Rare books, administrative offices, and space for special collections and exhibitions are planned for the mezzanine floor. Toombs emphasized the provisions for more than 1,000 private enclosures and 40 of the four person study rooms, saying they will create a whole new dimension for academic pursuits among faculty and graduatestudents." A RS 1 THE CAROLII eevesbes We have .1 the atudle. 42 yoars a CarefIDu Ci r- Uuvtatles I - aexi four i 1501 MAIN STREET BLOCKS FROM THE HORSESHOEJ COLUMBIA )O /DOWNTOWN PHONE 254.0371/F >e to be i )rhood of $5 million according to larold Brunton, dean of business rfairs. Brunton has asked Charles ee, director of the S. C. Depart bent of Archives and History to file a request with the Depart ent of the ' Interior for federal id." Included in the request was a 5,000 grant With which to hire an rchitect to advise of the estoration. According to Dean Brunton, ere are three main areas to the novation program. Exterior repainting, water roofing, and window repair will xne first. Secondly and also the most :pensive will be the interior 'novation. Spinazzolo believes the terior will probably have to be utted. COLUMBIA'S NEI Delicti tessei WEL( U.S.C. STU FACI 1636 SI Where Friends Meel IA COM teof the Univerus so be.. prlwIIeg4 Is and buNtly of ud to new memske maaualty wee oXt4 oeers. ABRICFAIR PHONE 'es ed A plan for remvation submitted by st ment calls for molding eaO into several apartments iuld have private baths but a large kitchen. The new interiors will equipped with air conditioning systems, improved plumbing, and re-wired electrical systems. The third and final phase of the project will be the landscaping of the grounds. Among suggestions in this area are the closing of the Horseshoe to traffic, new and more effective lighting, and restoration of a well and gazebo which existed before 1860. All, the buildings slated for restoration were erected before 1860. Those buildings on Pendleton and Green Streets, the peripheral Horseshoe, are not involved in the restoration. iEST & FINEST! i & Lounge OME DENTS & LT' MTER & t he Hungry Eat. -1,. MdUNITY Py snd Its I South CsrofI. 4 to serve USC for over is of the ad .* wrlag your 782-94p2