First floor, main entrance

Library Dean Cheryl Truesdell

First floor, computer lab and study area

First floor conference room

First floor librarian offices

Modern updates in the first floor bathrooms

Second floor elevators

Second floor common area for group and individual study

Second floor “Media Wall,” which will hold four televisions

“The Cloud” above the new stairwell

Second floor service desk

Second floor group study rooms

Third floor book stacks

Fourth floor quiet study room

If you haven’t heard already, the IPFW Helmke Library has been under renovations since January 2016. The Helmke Library renovations are ongoing throughout the fall semester (expected to finish in January 2017), but the College of Arts and Sciences received special access and thought we’d give you a peek inside. The newly renovated library will contain a variety of updated features. There will be a new staircase from the first to second floors that creates a streamlined pathway between the first and second floor service desks. The library will also have updated technology, including new high-powered computers (including a Mac lab) and increased data and power sockets throughout the floors and walls  of the library. Click through the pictures above to get a virtual tour of the nearly completed library!

For more information, check out the Helmke Library Refresh website.