Discuss “Shhh! Don’t slurp: New café to open on first floor of Hunt Library”

Staying in the library all night might taste a little better next fall when the Maggie Murph Café opens on the first floor of Hunt Library. The new campus eatery will serve coffee and grab-and-go sandwiches and salads.

Alumni, along with the University Libraries and Dining and Housing Services, are working together on the project.

“It’s a great partnership between the library and Dining Services,” said Tim Michael, director of Housing and Dining Services.

“Putting coffee shops in libraries is pretty common on college campuses, and they’re doing it in response to student demand,” Michael said.

Alumnae from Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, the University’s former women’s college that the café is named for, began expressing...