Technical Information
a floor area (24-35)
- 24
Total gross floor area
- 2 000 m²
- divided into
- 25
Open access services
- Lower floor is dedicated to group study, upper floor is dedicated to silent study.
Book and periodical stock is located on both floors with the majority on the upper floor.
The majority of the library stock is on open access.
- special rooms for (26-29)
- 26
Audiovisual
- 3 DVD/video viewing stations
- 27
Computers
- 14 online public access catalogues (OPACs)
- 28
Special collections
- Materials and Products Collection: samples of materials and suppliers catalogues.
- 29
Seminar room(s)
- 2 study booths on the lower floor
- special activities (30-32)
- 30
Exhibition space
- N/A
- 31
Lecture hall
- N/A
- 32
Public refreshments
- N/A
- 33
Administration and staff areas
- Staff areas on the upper and lower floor. Single staff area on the lower floor with capacity for 18 staff members. 1 office for a single occupant on the upper floor and a staff area with capacity for 8 staff and a processing area.
- 34
Closed access stacks
- N/A
- 35
Circulations areas (corridors, stairs, lifts), toilets, technical rooms, etc.
- 22 single unisex toilets including 2 disabled access toilets, internal staircase from lower to upper floor
- 36
Further information
- 2 levels located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Granary Building
- 37
Number of reader seats (total)
- 272 (220 study chairs, 1 sofa, 2 armchairs, 24 bespoke study benches) Study chairs and benches supplied by Race Furniture
- divided into
- 38
Audiovisual
- 3
- 39
Computers
- The building has ubiquitous wireless access with the view that general purpose computing will be based on laptop usage rather than fixed workstations.
- 40
Seminar room(s)
- N/A
- 41
Regular
- 269
b total potential capacity of shelving
- 42
Books and periodicals (total)
- 103 000 books; 891 journal titles including 316 current subscriptions; 2850 lm shelving available. Cantilibra shelving supplied by Demco Interiors.
- including
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Open access stacks
- 2850 linear metres
- 44
Closed access stacks
- N/A
- 45
Compact shelving
- N/A
- 46
Audiovisual materials
- 9 309 Multi-Media Items (incl. 4 829 DVDs, 3,000 videos, 891 CDs, 589 CD-Roms)
- 47
Other
- N/A
- 48
Number of staff required to operate the new library
- Central Saint Martins Library staff: 17 FTE
c mechanical features
- 49
Ventilation/Air Conditioning
- Displacement ventilation providing constant temperature at 21 °C
- 50
Heating
- Variable temperature wet system linked with fresh air ventilation
- 51
Lighting
- Computer controlled Prologik lighting system installed throughout the building
- 52
Acoustics
- N/A
- 53
Lifts, elevators, escalators
- 2 scenic lifts providing access to the Granary Building. Building served by 9 number Elite lifts
- 54
Book transportation system
- N/A
- 55
Theft detection
- 3M RFID system
- 56
Building management system
- Building management system controls all mechanical services, the system installed is manufactured by Trend
- 57
Type of IT infrastructure
- The IT infrastructure supporting CSM is a Cisco network of 6500 chassis in the Data Centre and 3750 switches on each floor. There is redundant 1GB WAN connectivity into the building with vertical fibre running from the Data Centre to the communication rooms on the floors and Cat5e 100Mbs to the desktop. Additionally there are 110 Wireless access points.
- 58
Other
- SALTO access control with smartcards is used to access all areas of the building; printing and copying facilities are Canon Multi Functional Devices with a cashless payment system in place. The print management systems is Canon Uniflow and the online payment system is WPM.
