Brainstorming/Initial Research

 I'm still in between 2 different building options right now but here's my initial research for both. I'm hoping this will help me decide on a direction.

Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library (but I think I will focus on the stacks)

Reasons to choose it:

• Hatcher is a great study spot on campus and has SO MUCH space that it can be overwhelming to navigate
• There are also so many resources there (books, the special collections, etc.) that a lot of students might not know about
• I spend a lot of time studying here- tables in the stacks, the ref room- and think it's a great space that could use some better signage

Photos (specifically of the stacks- I might solely focus on this area depending on timing):

Research

• What is there: 
• Hatcher North
• Basement: Staff space, east elevators, book stacks for call numbers HD 8000 to HE, center elevator, study space, book stacks for HE to HJ, a library staff women’s restroom with a lactation room, main elevators, and an accessible men’s restroom.
• Basement A: Book stacks for call numbers HB to HC, east elevators, study space, book stacks for H to HB, center elevator, book stacks for HC, study space, book stacks for HC to HD 7999. 
• Floor 1: Audubon Room, Hatcher Gallery, Humanities Collaboratory, east elevators, Gallery Lab, access to books stacks for call numbers AC to AP, center elevator, staff space, book stacks for call numbers AS and PN, book stacks for AS to AZ, International Studies reference collection, staff space, International Studies reading room and staff space, main elevators, a women’s restroom with lactation room, and interlibrary loan office. 
• Floor 1A: Book stacks for call numbers U to VM and HM to HN, east elevators, staff space, book stacks for call numbers Q to TX, center elevator, study space, and book stacks for call numbers HQ to HX.
• Floor 2: Reference Reading Room, Reference Office, study space, Ask a Librarian desk, ScholarSpace, access to book stacks for call numbers Z 1200 to ZA, east elevators, staff space, center elevator, entrance to Hatcher South, computing site with printing, staff space, Serials and Microforms with an Information Services desk, and main elevators.
• Floor 2A: East elevators, book stacks for call numbers Z 1 to Z 1199 with study space, and center elevator.
• Floor 3: Study rooms 310 and 311, women’s and men’s restrooms, staff space, east elevators, Asia Library book stacks for call numbers AC to BL with study space and no access to the rest of the floor, and main elevators.
• Floor 3A: East elevators, Asia Library book stacks for call numbers BM to DS 829 with study space, and center elevator.
• Floor 4: Staff space, east elevators, Asia Library book stacks for call numbers DS 830 to TX with study space and entrance to Hatcher South, the Asia Library reading room, conference room, and reference, main elevators, Asia Library office, and staff space.
• Floor 4A: East elevators, book stacks for call numbers B to BX with study space around the perimeter, and center elevator.
• Hatcher South
• Floor 1: Accessible entry level of south building with the Information Services desk on your left when you enter. Elevators provide access to floors 1-8 of Hatcher South.
• Floor 2: Entrance to Hatcher North, elevators, women’s and men’s restrooms, entrance to the Clark Library, exhibit space, staff space, computing site, access to connector bridge to floor 3 of Shapiro Library, staff space, study space, atlas cases A to Z, Information Services desk, computing site, map cases (see staff for access), government document books A to Z, Clark Library Presentation Space, staff space. 
• Floor 3: Elevators, women’s restroom, accessible gender inclusive restroom, men’s restroom, study carrels that wrap around the floor, book stacks for call numbers 800 to 899 with Children's Literature in the center.
• Floor 4: Elevators, women’s restroom, accessible gender inclusive restroom, men’s restroom, study carrels (select carrels are bookable), book stacks for call numbers P to PZ and C to DB, reflection room.
• Floor 5: Elevators, women’s restroom, accessible gender inclusive restroom, men’s restroom, study carrels (select carrels are bookable), and book stacks for call numbers DC to F.
• Floor 6: Elevators, women’s restroom, accessible gender inclusive restroom, men’s restroom, access to the Special Collections Research Center and its reading room, classroom space, and study space, books stacks for call numbers BF to GV and G 350\L-NX, and bookable study carrels.
• Floor 7: Elevators, women’s restroom, men’s restroom, and staff office space.
• Floor 8: Elevators, women’s and men’s restrooms, conference room 806, Papyrology, library administration and staff offices, and the Center for Academic Innovation. 
• About the building/space:
• Built between 1916 and 1920
• Cost $615,000 
• Architects: Albert Kahn of Detroit, in consultation with William Warner Bishop, the first head librarian of the new building.
• In 1915, the regents declared the old library building to be unsafe, due to the wood used in construction of the roof and much of the frame.
• Roughly modeled on the Harvard and University of California libraries, the four-story structure was built on the site of the old library, and reused its two fireproof bookstacks. Two new bookstacks were built perpendicular to the old stacks, one on either side, and designed to permit additional construction up to a height of fifteen stories.
• The building was constructed entirely of reinforced concrete, and each floor was isolated from the ones above and below.
• The first floor entrance hallway was, and still is, decorated in a Pompeian motif, with display cases. 
• On the north side of the second floor was the main reading room of the library, which has not changed significantly.
• The two large frescoes at the east and west ends of the room are "The Arts of Peace" and "The Arts of War", by Gari Melchers. They were painted in 1893 for the Manufactures Building at the World's Fair in Chicago.
• Harlan Hatcher:
• 8th president of the University
• A former dean and English professor at Ohio State University
• During his tenure: acquisition and development of the north campus began, and the Flint and Dearborn campuses were opened. 
• Controversies over the firing of two faculty members during the McCarthy era and the rise of student activism also marked Hatcher's' years.
  
  
  

2nd Building Choice- MATH building (Mason, Angell, Tisch, Haven)

Reasons to choose it:

• This building is SO confusing because all of these halls are combined into one space
• There is 0 indication of when one building stops and another starts
• There is so many facilities and offices/spaces within these buildings but almost impossible to find if you don't wander for hours
• Spend a lot of time studying in Mason
• Trying to find professors in Haven

Photos:

Research:

• What is there:
• Mason Hall: LSA Honors Dept, LSA Instructional Support Services
• Angell Hall: Auditoriums, Fishbowl, English Dept, Planetarium, Bridge Program, Center for Global and Intercultural Study, Comprehensive Studies Program, Department of Classical Studies, Department of Philsophy, LSA Academic Advising, LSA Academic Audit Office, LSA Academic Standards Board, LSA Facilities, LSA Operations and Facilities, Office of Assistant Dean/Academic Affairs, Peer Academic Advising, Sweetland
• Haven Hall: African American Music Collection, American Culture Program, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Dept of Political Science, Lemuel Johnson Library, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Services for Students with Disabilities
• Tisch Hall: Dept of History, LSA Tech Services Walk in, Comp Lit.
• About the building space:
• Mason:
• Begun in 1840, completed in 1841
• The University's first academic building
• Estimated cost: $16,000.00
• Named Mason Hall--in honor Michigan's first governor, Stevens T. Mason--by the Board of Regents in April, 1843
• Alexander J. Davis of New York became the first architect for the University of Michigan but his building plan was never implemented
• The architect of the first classroom structure actually built at the University of Michigan is unknown.
• The building, originally referred to as the University Building, was completed in 1841 and immediately occupied by the newly established College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the first department of the University. 
• The building was originally designed to provide dormitory and study space for the University's students and their tutors, but was soon altered to provide classroom space as well. Plans called for the exterior to be of painted brick, but stuccoing was settled upon after the Regents decided that the exterior of the new building should conform to that of the Professors' Houses, built the previous year.
• Stevens Mason: Democrat, appointed by Andrew Jackson

• Angell:
• Building completed in 1924
• Designed by Albert Kahn of Detroit
• Contractor: U.M. Buildings and Grounds Department
• Cost: $1,077,000
• Angell Hall was the cornerstone of the building program inaugurated by President Burton in 1920. Old University Hall could no longer house the growing College of Literature, Science and Arts.
• Since College was central to the University's administrative and educational functions, the new building was conceived of as the central building on campus. 
• President Burton said, "It [should] be beautiful, dignified, and commanding. It [should] help give unity and form to the entire campus." To match the appearance of surrounding structures, such as Hill Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Hall, and the Clements Library, planners of the building chose a classic design.
• The entrance portico followed a classical model, with eight huge Doric columns surmounting a wide esplanade of steps. Several sculptures and mottos carved above the main door and the columns symbolize educational values.
• Inscription on top of columns: The inscription is a passage from the Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, drafted originally by Thomas Jefferson and passed by the Continental Congress in that year. The Ordinance organized the Northwest Territory—that great stretch of land “northwest” of the original 13 American colonies—that would become the states of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Along with the sentiment came grants of land to be sold to fund the “means of education,” thus making real the first promise of free, universal public education in the history of the world.
• This passage from the Northwest Ordinance was, therefore, the birth certificate of the University of Michigan.
• Named after James Burrill Angell- Umich president from 1871-1909
• Haven Hall:
• named after 2nd president Erastus Otis Haven
• A professor of Latin, History and Literature at the university from 1852-1856
• Haven was called to serve as president in the wake of the controversies surrounding Tappan's dismissal. 
• He was able to win over elements from both camps and succeeded in consolidating some of the reforms Tappan had instituted and secured an annual appropriation from the legislature.
• used to be the law building and was renamed Haven Hall after the Law School moved to the Cook Quadrangle
• Law department outgrew the space
• On June 6th, 1950, a fire destroyed Haven Hall, including the 20,000 item Bureau of Government Library. The fire speeded action on a proposed addition to Angell Hall which was at that time being considered by the Board of Regents. When the addition was completed in 1952, the Regents authorized the recycling of the name of the recently burned building, so the current eight-story office building behind Angell Hall bears the name Haven Hall.
• Tisch Hall: 
• Built as the Angell-haven connector
• built in 1996
• by Albert Kahn Associates