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The University of Massachusetts Amherst needs a 28-story library that is the tallest in the world? 🤔
Can someone tell me why…….
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst needs a 28-story library that is the tallest in the world? 🤔
Shortage of real estate footprint?
That's usually why people build tall buildings.
They are over compensating for their tiny science lab.
The larger question is: do we really need giant buildings full of physical books in the digital age?
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It ain’t Manhattan. And that’s a small school for a massive library. Hell the university of Wisconsin library is only 10 stories tall - much bigger and better school than UMASS-Amherst.
Just seems obnoxious and unnecessary
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Well it was built in the 70s I believe. I just think it’s wildly disproportionately huge for the size of school and community.
I’ve been to libraries that have way more than 28 stories.
OP writes for a living. Throwing shade on a building dedicated to housing....works of professional writers. Can't make this stuff upThe University of Massachusetts Amherst needs a 28-story library that is the tallest in the world? 🤔
28 stories. 28 genres. Coincidence?
- Action and Adventure
- Anthology
- Classic
- Comic and Graphic Novel
- Crime and Detective
- Drama
- Fable
- Fairy Tale
- Fan-Fiction
- Fantasy
- Historical Fiction
- Horror
- Humor
- Legend
- Magical Realism
- Mystery
- Mythology
- Romance
- Satire
- Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
- Short Story
- Suspense/Thriller
- Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
- Essay
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Periodicals
- Reference/Self-help Book
- Poetry
That's not really a good idea for a library though. Books are heavy and concentrating all that weight in one place really probably complicated the engineering of the building.
Because not every book has been digitized and books can't be erased by a power failure. I'm not saying all libraries need to have actual books, but some do. University libraries, where most of our research is done, are the logical places to keep actual books on hand.
They needed it to store their vast collection of tall books.The University of Massachusetts Amherst needs a 28-story library that is the tallest in the world? 🤔
Physical books can be erased by a fire.
There's no excuse for not having everything digitized at this point, except for historical stuff.
Watching grad students drag in dozens and dozens of books to re-check them out, thus precluding others from using them, makes me think digital versions offer superiority overall.
/Strozier ‘96-‘97
Which is why you have them in more than one place. And you don't think books are historical?
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Because they couldn’t afford to build the whole space needle? 🤷♂️Also, on the topic of strange buildings...why does Oral Roberts have this monstrosity?
They are in an “arms race” with Scissoring Ellens University.
Also, on the topic of strange buildings...why does Oral Roberts have this monstrosity?
That was Pastor Oral Roberts' direct sat link antenna connection to the Most Holy. It was rendered inoperative when God cut the cord after having tired of Oral's rampant fraud, graft and hypocrisy.
It appears that all of the floors are being used for legitimate library uses/functions;
Ten floors of Book Stacks, and then lots of meeting, study, office, and research space. There are a number of fancy bathrooms, a cafe, and some areas set aside for special collections as well.
People leave lots of stuff to universities and my guess is that this winds up being managed by the university libraries; artwork, writings, museum type collections and so on. I presume that a huge amount of endowment money is behind this stuff.
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There was a thread on HROT a few months back discussing careers in Library Science and Museum Curation. It turned out that libraries are kind of happening places since people get rich, accumulate stuff, and then want to have it preserved for all time. They then create endowments and leave their stuff to foundations, universities and so on.
www.library.umass.edu
A listing of their collections:
Ten floors of Book Stacks, and then lots of meeting, study, office, and research space. There are a number of fancy bathrooms, a cafe, and some areas set aside for special collections as well.
People leave lots of stuff to universities and my guess is that this winds up being managed by the university libraries; artwork, writings, museum type collections and so on. I presume that a huge amount of endowment money is behind this stuff.
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There was a thread on HROT a few months back discussing careers in Library Science and Museum Curation. It turned out that libraries are kind of happening places since people get rich, accumulate stuff, and then want to have it preserved for all time. They then create endowments and leave their stuff to foundations, universities and so on.
W. E. B. Du Bois Library Floor Directory
A listing of their collections:
Du Bois Library Mural Image Collection
umassamherst.lunaimaging.com
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I love a big library, don't get me wrong. I'm not even saying UMASS-Amherst shouldn't have a gargantuan, Taj Mahal of a library that is taller than any building in the entire state of Iowa. I'm just saying it's WEIRD!It appears that all of the floors are being used for legitimate library uses/functions;
Ten floors of Book Stacks, and then lots of meeting, study, office space, and research space. There are a number of fancy bathrooms, a cafe, and some areas set aside for special collections as well.
People leave lots of stuff to universities and my guess is that this winds up being managed by the university libraries; artwork, writings, museum type collections and so on. I presume that a huge amount of endowment money is behind this stuff.
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There was a thread on HROT a few months back discussing careers in Library Science and Museum Curation. It turned out that libraries are kind of happening places since people get rich, accumulate stuff, and then want to have it preserved for all time.
This particular library even has some benefactor's name attached.
W. E. B. Du Bois Library Floor Directory
Was he the one that the 900 foot tall horse appeared to and gave him God's will?
Edit-almost, it was a 900 foot Jesus.
https://www.who2.com/oral-roberts-and-the-900-foot-jesus/
Not book-related, but there must be a ton of good underused bathrooms in that building. More poop options for the undergrads is nice.
