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A new reading room on the lower level of the Law Library was opened officially for the 2008 Fall Semester. This newly-remodeled area encompasses nearly the entire lower level of the library and meets a growing need for space within the library that is reserved for quiet study.
The new reading room features four long rows of individual study tables. Each hardwood table has a long reading lamp running its length and eight electrical outlets to support laptop use on the law school?s wireless network. Surrounding the tables are tall wood chairs, which have added 114 new seats to the library?s total seating capacity. Study carrels line the windowed wall. The library?s collection of law reviews of Indiana law schools is shelved along the back wall. The library?s extensive collection of microfiche resources is located in cabinets along the interior wall.
Creating the reading room as a comfortable place for quiet study involved a summer-long construction project. Work began just days after the spring semester ended, with library staff moving over 800 shelves? worth of hardbound law review volumes to storage in the law school?s unfinished shell space. These law reviews are now available to faculty and students in .pdf format via HeinOnline or through retrieval from storage on request. Over the summer the entire lower level was re-painted and re-carpeted while the custom-made tables and lamps were being built and shipped. Installation of the new furnishings took place during September.
The opening of the new reading room will be celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception on Oct. 10.

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