Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation donated $3 million to transform the Cornell School of Hotel Administration’s library and study lounge into a new facility.
The project is to enhance student learning in the digital age. The place will be called “The Marriott Student Learning Center” where student will be able to study individually or in groups and relax having digital access to the library collections.
The new facility will also help facilitate group work and learning through digital media. The center will provide students more access to digital information so that they could find any information more easily and quickly.
But what about librarians who used to help students in a non-digital way? They thought of it as well. There will still be librarians on duty, but their role from now will be to work with students on their research via digital means.
The new facility will be designed by a well known architectural firm Woods Bagot. What’s interesting is that the senior director of the firm Woods Bagot is a used to be student of Cornell’s architecture school.
The Marriott foundation has been working with Cornell since 1950s. In 1986 the foundation sponsored the Hotel School for the construction of the Statler Hotel (http://www.statlerhotel.cornell.edu/) by contributing $2 million.
The construction of the facility will last 3 months from June to September 2012
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