- A) General Information
- B) The New Building
- C) Technical Information
- D) Schedule Of The Building Process
- E) Costs (Including Taxes)
- F) Publications & Awards
- G) Plans & Photos



Technical Information
a | floor area (24-35) | |
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24 | Total gross floor area | 880 m² including closed stacks, closed stack alone 105 m² |
divided into | ||
25 | Open access services | not specified |
special rooms for (26-29) | ||
26 | Audiovisual | A viewing and editing room on level 1. |
27 | Computers | On all levels: open access, rooms for groups, special room for individuals. |
28 | Special collections | In a specially secured and climate-controlled area are old prints, topographical maps and old manuscripts. |
29 | Seminar room(s) | Teaching room on level 1. |
special activities (30-32) | ||
30 | Exhibition space | 2 display cases of glass: on level 0 and 1. |
31 | Lecture hall | 1 Instruction-room on level 1. |
32 | Public refreshments | 1 study cafe on level 1. |
33 | Administration and staff areas | On all levels: special and open staff areas with pantry and meetingrooms. Flexible workplaces: employees use a laptop. Note: Not every staff member works in the library building. The secretariat, the communications department etc. are housed elsewhere on campus. |
34 | Closed access stacks | Situated on level 0 with 2 entrances. Only accessible by staff. |
35 | Circulations areas (corridors, stairs, lifts), toilets, technical rooms, etc. | not specified |
36 | Further information | 3 levels |
37 | Number of reader seats (total) | 948 divided into: Silent area: 244 computers (48 with laptop holder), 210 places for group work: 2 - 8 people, 494 individual study places with computers |
divided into | ||
38 | Audiovisual | A viewing and editing Room on level 1. |
39 | Computers | see nr. 37 |
40 | Seminar room(s) | 1 instruction-room on level 1. |
41 | Regular | see nr. 37 |
b | total potential capacity of shelving | |
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42 | Books and periodicals (total) | 566 815 volumes |
including | ||
43 | Open access stacks | 115 890 volumes (A journal is counted as 1 title, but may consist of multiple physical copies.) |
44 | Closed access stacks | 450 925 volumes, elsewhere on campus: about: 373 350 volumes |
45 | Compact shelving | Not specified |
46 | Audiovisual materials | Not specified |
47 | Other | see nr. 28 |
48 | Number of staff required to operate the new library | Not specified for the library. For the total see nr. 16 |
c | mechanical features | |
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49 | Ventilation/Air Conditioning | Air Conditioning |
50 | Heating | District heating (Gas) |
51 | Lighting | offices, meeting rooms, student area, study cafe: in Es (lux): 450 walking areas, restrooms, closed stacks: in Es (lux): 200 Energy saving. In the offices, meeting rooms, instruction rooms: the lights react to movement. If no one is in this room, the light goes off automatically. |
52 | Acoustics | Based on the legal requirements, acoustic energy is applied. Measures have been taken by: (1) Description of separation: walls between office rooms / study workplaces, walls between the office / workplace study and meeting space, walls between meeting rooms, walls with a door between the office room / study and work progress, walls with a door between meeting room and hallway. (2) Type of rooms: offices and office gardens, student workstations, instruction-en presentation rooms, general circulation areas, bathrooms, study café/pantry for employees, print/repro- and computer rooms, technical areas. |
53 | Lifts, elevators, escalators | 1 outside the building for persons and materials (to reach the entrance on level 1) 2 inside the building for persons/materials, 1 for materials (persons too), a small one only for books etc (between level 0 and 1). |
54 | Book transportation system | |
55 | Theft detection | Autocheck Systems Nederland |
56 | Building management system | |
57 | Type of IT infrastructure | 10 Gb/s Internet connection via SURFnet. In the workplace, 100 MB/s (occasionally 1 GB/s). Cabling Type in the workplace FTP. Single mode fiber between buildings. Multimode fiber in buildings. |
58 | Other |