Grainger Library

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The Grainger Engineering Library is a library for the College of Engineering dedicated to all disciplines of engineering at the University. It is situated on the north side of the Bardeen Quad on the engineering campus along Springfield Avenue.

The Grainger Library contains a two-story Main Reading Gallery, and two smaller, two-story pavilion reading galleries. The galleries are also used for special events and dinners. In addition, the facility contains three large seminar rooms and four smaller conference rooms. The building has 60 networked computers, 100 terminals, 7 information kiosks, and 6 servers. The library also has three main computer labs. One Engineering Work Station (EWS) on the fourth floor, and another EWS on the basement level. The third computer lab is open to any student and is situated on the ground level. The building offers group study rooms, individual study carrels, faculty and scholar studies and conference rooms. In fact, it was so technically advanced that the furniture had to be custom designed because no one had ever had data and power connected to every seat on this scale before.

Many students, including non-engineering majors frequent the library to do school work and study. However, sometimes, especially during finals week there is some bitterness between students: sometimes the engineers are annoyed with the non-engineering majors, claiming they should go to their own library to study and stop taking up all the space.