At Fresno State, Furniture Is On Hold

摘要

Amid a slumping economy, libraries will be forced to find creative ways to adapt-and nowhere is that more true than at California State University, Fresno. Although the library's massive,rnstate-of-the-art $105 million building has finished construction, a statewide budget freeze means a crucial detail has been put on hold: furniture.rnA state budget shortfall held up about $8 million for the library's finishing touches, about 80 percent of the library's planned furnishings, "everything that is essentially not nailed down to the floor," said Dean Peter McDonald. The university and the library were to host a modest ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 19.