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In 2004 Monash University Library began a program to refurbish
and update its buildings to keep pace with the diverse and changing
needs of its users and respond to changing teaching and learning
styles.
A detailed set of guidelines was developed, aimed at providing a
comprehensive and uniform approach to all aspects of the
refurbishments from architecture, signage and floor plans to colour
schemes and furniture.
The objective was for the plan to be implemented in
refurbishments across eight Victorian branches over a 20 year period
ensuring that the end result is libraries that are:
- technologically enabled
- more adaptable to changing study styles
- easier to navigate
- modern and consistent in design and layout
- more reflective of the university's status, and
- a pleasure to use.
The first library to be refurbished using these guiding
principles was the Hargrave-Andrew Library on Clayton Campus, which
once completed became the blueprint for the upgrading of the other
branch libraries.
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