In June 2023, Kennedy Library closed for construction with the anticipated opening set for the fall of 2025. Considering that Cal Poly has around 20,000 undergraduate students, many have said to be feeling the impact of this closure. Cal Poly has aimed to provide temporary alternative study locations including outside study tents, spaces in Crandall […]
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Kennedy Library Transformation Team to host in-person town hall
The panel, featuring design and build firms Miller Hull and Hensel Phelp representatives, will offer insight into the library transformation project’s status and answer any questions from attendees during a Q&A portion of the meeting.
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Students can use University Graphic Systems printers as a resource in lieu of Kennedy Library
With the closure of Robert E. Kennedy Library, students are left to find new study spaces, meeting spots and places to fulfill their printing needs. Instead of students having to set out to buy home printers, Cal Poly is offering alternative options, including University Graphic Systems (UGS) allowing students to use their printers. Student-available printers […]
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New campus building developments to watch for this school year
This summer, Cal Poly broke ground on several major construction projects on campus, many of which are set to be completed within the next year. According to a university news release, some of the projects include “building the John Madden Football Center, reconfiguring the Administration Building parking lot, renovating the interior of the University Union, […]
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New temporary study spaces take over parking during Kennedy Library construction
On June 16, Robert E. Kennedy Library closed its doors until fall of 2025. To provide students with alternative study spaces, Cal Poly has set up temporary study locations — some of which include pre-existing education buildings, outside study tents and the old Crandall Gym. Parking lots C7 and H11, previously faculty lots, will hold […]
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WATCH: Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library to close for renovations, leaving students looking for new places to study
Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library will be closing at the end of the Spring 2023 quarter to undergo renovations. The project is expected to take two years and will bring the building up to California’s state standards. This closure will leave students looking for new places to study. Mustang News reporter RJ Pollock shows us how […]
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PROVE Lab takes prototypes to Kennedy Library exhibit
Cal Poly Engineering Club, Prototype Vehicles Laboratory bring Limitless: The Process of Innovation to the second floor of Kennedy Library.
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Kennedy Library will stay open, renovations delayed due to funding
Robert E. Kennedy Library will not be closed or renovated next year due to a lack of funding after it was previously projected to close as early as the 2019-20 school year. A $441,229 concept plan is now completed for the library and plans are moving forward to begin construction when funding becomes available. “The […]
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What closing Kennedy Library looks like for students
Imagine all five floors of Robert E. Kennedy Library as they are on a weekday here at Cal Poly, full of students. Next, imagine these hundreds of students in the library at a given time forced to relocate elsewhere on campus — these stressed, perspiring, sleep-deprived students — occupying every lawn, classroom, table, dry segment […]
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Questions we need to ask before accepting life without a library
Students may have seen him walking around Cal Poly wearing a beret and speaking with students on Dexter Lawn. Seventy-one year-old Atascadero resident Eric Greening uses Cal Poly as a venue to tutor community members in humanities, social sciences and biology. Greening said he opposes the potential two-year closure of the Robert E. Kennedy Library. The views […]
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Student-built bench completed outside Kennedy Library
The finishing touches have been put on a new bench outside of Kennedy Library, designed and built entirely by three architecture seniors to promote tolerance.