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Condemned Library
Serves Music Majors
By Erin Wynia
Senior Writer
Imagine a senior oboe player trying
to locate a book of orchestral excerpts in
UNC’s music library.
After getting the book’s call number,
she walks downstairs into the library’s
basement, stoops under a brick archway
to the right and ducks under pipes run
ning chest-level across the stacks room.
Fans drying the rainwater off the
floor blow dust into her eyes. And as she
searches for her excerpt book, she tries
not to think of the condemned room she
stands in.
Housed in Hill Hall, the University’s
music library contains the largest col
lection of music scores, books, journals
and theses in the Southeast. Valued at
$26 million, the library’s contents sit pri
marily in the building’s cramped base
ment, an area declared condemned by
the N.C. Department of Insurance.
“We’re willing to send students down
there to use a facility that’s not only
shabby but condemned,” said Daniel
Zager, UNC music librarian. “I think
that’s scandalous.”
By definition, a condemned area can
not be occupied once its contents are
removed. The only reason it remains
open now, Zager said, is because the
library has nowhere else to go, and clos
ing the building’s basement would effec
tively shut down a state agency.
But being located in a condemned
area is just the beginning of the music
library’s current problems.
The 18-inch-thick white pipes that
hover inches above the library’s book
stacks carry water to the building’s
sprinkler system and the steam that
heats other campus buildings. But the
pipes pose a danger to library users
because they hang lower than an aver
age adult stands.
“There’s a lot of potential for damage
to the collection,” Zager said of the
pipes. “But a damaged steam pipe, for
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example, would be catastrophic.”
Catastrophic because the state has
not insured the library, and many mate
rials in the 70-year-old collection are
irreplaceable, Zager said. Catastrophic
because heavy rain storms cause water
to leak into the stacks. Asa result, mold
could grow, and bugs could begin nest
ing in the books.
The collection needs anew home,
Zager said, because it lends too many
materials to remain in its condemned
home. The library handles a large
amount of traffic as the third-highest cir
culation on campus, behind Davis and
Undergraduate Libraries, he said.
To accommodate patrons and protect
the valuable collection, University
administrators bounced alternatives to
housing the library in Hill Hall. They
considered moving materials to Wilson
Library, which already holds overflow
materials from the Music Library, but
said they did not want to risk the wear
and tear during transport of the materi
als, said Department of Music
Chairman Thomas Warburton.
“It’s the finest academic library in the
Southeast,” Warburton said.
But the future could bring a change
for the library. Although the N.C.
General Assembly has not heeded
music faculty members’ past requests to
improve the library’s space, the
University’s Master Plan, the campus
blueprint for growth during the next 10
years, includes a separate building for
the music library, said Darryl Gless,
senior associate dean in the College of
Arts and Sciences.
“The plan in its current state calls for
an arts complex near Hill Hall and the
Ackland Art Museum and Hanes Art
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after leaders who had been approached
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Hall Library. This corner of the library floods each time it rains.
Center," he said. “This is anticipated to
have stacks, offices for staff, a listening
lab, a seminar room, reference, reading
and periodical rooms, a circulation area
and faculty and student study carrels.”
The current library has little room for
study, and even less for listening to
music, a requirement in most music
classes. Zager said it did not adequately
meet music students’ study needs.
“When we study music, we need to
sit down with a score, a recording and
books and journals ... and there’s just
no way we can do that,” he said.
Sara Cassidey, a senior music perfor
mance major from Slidell, La., said the
state of the library caused her concern.
“It’s not lit very well, so finding call
numbers down there is hard,” she said.
“And you’re always afraid you’re going
to bang your head.”
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But building anew library depends
on money from state legislators and pri
vate donors. Already, private donors
have pledged $600,000 to the project,
Zager said. Gless said UNC-system
administrators would include the library
as a project for their upcoming bond
request to the General Assembly.
Until anew facility is built, however,
music students will continue scores,
CDs and books from a library in con
stant danger of destruction.
Cassidey said she wished the legisla
ture would act soon to provide money
for anew building. “It’s just scary that
we have all that music down there, and
there’s a sprinkler head right next to,
like, Bach’s complete works.”
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A local Jiffy Lube and a
pedestrian fell victim to
armed robbers in the latest
in a string of armed attacks.
By Jenny Rosser
Staff Writer
Police are still searching for suspects
in two unrelated armed robberies, one
that landed a Chapel Hill man in the
emergency room.
The incidents are the latest in the
area, as police are still investigating five
other armed robberies that occurred
within the past two weeks.
The first robbery occurred
Wednesday around 7:10 p.m. at Jiffy
Lube, located on 1746A N. Fordham
Road.
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman
Jane Cousins said three employees were
getting into a parked car when two men
appeared from behind the building and
demanded money.
“Both men pointed handguns at the
employees and demanded the money
bag one employee was carrying,”
Cousins said.
The employee then gave the
assailants the money and the two rob
bers fled the scene on foot.
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The victims did not give dear
descriptions of the assailants, but did say
they appeared to be in their twenties.
Cousins said no one was injured in
the incident
Although the incident occurred in the
same area as three other recent armed
robberies, police did not believe this
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