Columbia University has received a $200,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation to support the Integrated Science Library to be housed in the University’s new Northwest Corner Building for interdisciplinary science research. The library, scheduled to open in 2010, will feature a digital science center providing research and data support for students and faculty in a high-end, technology-rich facility, with flexible spaces for collaborative work, and core literature along with current reading collections in the sciences.  For the full press release, please go to:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/2009-08-20.sciencelibrary.html.