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Library Beautification: Decorating a Denuded Library That Has Only Three Months Left to Live (in Its Current Location)

Freedman, Jenna; O'Neill, Shannon M.

In the last semester of its tenure in Lehman Hall, after its book stacks were removed Barnard librarians found ways to make the library cozy and fun. With limited resources College Archivist Shannon O'Neill led a task force's efforts to bring in inexpensive furniture and the Communications Committee, chaired by communications director and zine librarian Jenna Freedman devised an activity to ignite students' feeling of ownership of the space.

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Barnard Library and Academic Information Services
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February 18, 2016