My immediate reaction to the library was the association of the endless times I enter the building with just the aim to work on endless essays or for dashing to the printers before my 9am. I have always seen the Library as a formal, serious, organised place with the sole purpose to work. This is where our social groups, lecturers walk in and out, pass by every day. When it becomes a place of routine where we go of purpose, it becomes easy to look past the entire space which it has to offer. Students and Staff take the University Library for granted. We are lucky to have such a central based building on campus with the facilities and vast knowledge that it holds. The structure has its past of a workhouse and It shall be interesting to look into the people who first were using or in the building. What they were working on? How long they were there for? The conditions?
In addition it would be interesting to get thinking about the ambitions that people now have and how the books provide their foundations for their career pathway. There are vast amount of personalities, professions and a variety of ‘types’ you will encounter specific to this site of the Library in 2014 who we can question and find out why they are there, and what drives them.
It will be exciting to look at such a familiar place which was once a grain house; explore areas we didn’t know before of the Great Central Library, its people, location, the effect of night and day. The project begins!
Accessed January 24th 2014: http://stemarchitects.co.uk/Projects/printView?req=Great-Central-Warehouse-Library-GCW-Lincoln
Accessed January 24th 2014: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/CULIB/CULIB61/CULIB_61.htm