Library opens at midnight
As construction workers scramble, librarians unsure of opening ‘until last minute’
Although the chaos of construction crews had ended just hours earlier, Bass Library re-opened at midnight Friday to crowds of rowdy students and a ceremonial procession depositing the first books into the newly-renovated underground library.
The library — which first opened in 1971 as the Cross Campus Library — was entirely gutted in the course of its nearly 18-month renovation, which aimed to transform the formerly barren, fluorescent-lit library from the forlorn underground cavern it once was into a 21st century study space. The new library, renamed after prominent Yale...
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