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Discuss “Letter to the Editor”

The libraries thank Andrew Peters for his eloquent and thoughtful piece “Hunt should be redesigned for the 21st-century student” (November 6). Peters’ ideas coincide with our plans.

To recapture space for students, we built an offsite storage facility in 2005, which enabled us to transfer many older materials out of the libraries. Users can request stored materials and have them within 24 hours.

Our first project repurposing space was Maggie Murph Café, funded by over $350,000 in gifts from alumni and friends of the Margaret Morrison College for Women.

In the last five years, other generous donors have also improved the library experience for students: Margaret Cyert funded and then endowed finals study breaks, Virginia Schatz seeded...

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