Hopkins Library Renovation

The Welch Medical Library has always been an academic resource and gathering space for the Hopkins Community. Showing its' age in disrepair, the hospital president and the deans of the three schools convened the Committee for the 21st Century Welch Library. The group came away with the goal of reaffirming the Welch Library as an information resource and improving the use of the building.

Preliminary repairs included updated lighting, electrical rewiring, and reworked study areas, and short-term renovations included replacing the windows, making repairs to the skylight, improving restroom accessibility, and refurbishing the study carrels to refocus the library as a gathering space.

The aging of the Welch Library's physical space, the declining traffic to the building, the explosion of the electronic collection, and cost constraints have necessitated careful re-examination of the future of the library services and building. Renovations began in Fall of 2013.

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