anchor Description
This project provides funding for the renovation of the libraries on two of Montgomery College's campuses, specifically the Rockville Macklin Tower Building, and the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Resource Center. An architecture firm has developed conceptual designs for the two campus libraries, and has identified improvements required to support organizational and service changes, and to modernize the libraries. The main library floors will be hubs of academic life at Montgomery College: dynamic spaces that will be student-centered, technology and service-driven, and will foster innovation. The upper floors will provide students with comfortable and quiet study spaces and smaller, curated collections to support their academic and career goals. Additional goals of this project is to meet the variety of student needs including group study, individual study, and silent study.
anchorEstimated Schedule
A document was completed in for the Takoma Park/Silver Spring library renovation. Design will start in construction will begin in and continue in with completion in The Rockville library project design will begin in and construction, and FFE will be requested in and
anchorCost Change
State aid escalation of percent approved for
anchor Justification
The Takoma Park/Silver Spring Resource Center was constructed in and is years old. The Rockville Macklin Tower Building was constructed in and is years old. These two buildings are outdated, space and service configuration is insufficient, employee workspaces are inadequate to promote collaboration with colleagues, as well as, support student success. In the Montgomery College Libraries had nearly visitors, and ethnographic studies have shown that libraries are one of the places at Montgomery College where students can escape from work and family obligations to get homework and studying done. In addition, Montgomery College's libraries provide students access to technology to be successful in their coursework. In the Montgomery College library's computers, laptops, and tablets were used approximately times by nearly unique users. Providing computers, laptops, tablets, software, scanners, internet, and accessible software programs improves college affordability for students who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford those tools. The Montgomery College Libraries increasingly support educational excellence by embedding librarians and information literacy into classes with students taught. Other relevant studies and plans include the Libraries Master Plan Montgomery College Libraries' Ethnographic Studies Collegewide Facilities Master Plan (Pending Libraries Planning Study and Libraries Planning Study Germantown Addendum and Montgomery College Strategic Plan
anchorOther
Appropriation: Total (GO Bonds); and (State Aid)). Appropriation: Total (GO Bonds); and (State Aid)).A fund transfer was made to this project: from the Planning, Design and Construction project Resol.
anchorFiscal Note
transferred from Planning, Design, and Construction project to Collegewide Library Renovations project in the CIP (BOT adopted on
anchorDisclosures
Montgomery College asserts that this project conforms to the requirement of relevant local plans, as required by the Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Act.