{"id":8890,"date":"2015-05-01T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2015-05-08T04:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:29:31","slug":"science-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/2015\/05\/01\/science-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Commons nearly ready for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9165\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2015\/05\/atwood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9165\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/files\/2015\/05\/atwood.png\" alt=\"Interior photo of a new library space\" width=\"288\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Science Commons in the 4-story atrium of the Atwood Chemistry Center. At the time of this photo, the furniture and service desk were still covered in plastic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a recent Library all-hands meeting, <strong>Charles Forrest<\/strong>\u00a0announced that the Science Commons in the new\u00a0Atwood Chemistry Center\u00a0is nearly complete. The\u00a0Science Commons is located\u00a0in the 4-story atrium that is the centerpiece of the complex.<\/p>\n<p>The Science Commons will feature services and collections expanded beyond\u00a0chemistry. Scheduled \u00a0to open in the fall, the Commons will house collections from a range of\u00a0scientific areas and feature a full\u00a0service desk.<\/p>\n<p>Like the recently renovated Learning Commons on the entrance level of the Woodruff Library, the Science Commons is designed to support a &#8220;bring your own device&#8221; approach to technology, offering comfortable furniture and robust wireless connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Science Commons has not opened to the public, the Chemistry department held a service awards banquet on April 17 and an undergraduate awards ceremony on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a beautiful space,&#8221; said Ethel Ellington, who received her 25-years-of-service honors at the April 17 event. &#8220;We are looking forward to moving into the new addition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent Library all-hands meeting, Charles Forrest\u00a0announced that the Science Commons in the new\u00a0Atwood Chemistry Center\u00a0is nearly complete. The\u00a0Science Commons is located\u00a0in the 4-story atrium that is the centerpiece of the complex. The Science Commons will feature services and collections expanded beyond\u00a0chemistry. Scheduled \u00a0to open in the fall, the Commons will house collections from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":9165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-8890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-science-commons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/lits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}