Students returning to the Polytechnic campus this semester will find almost nothing is as they left it. Luckily, staff from the Polytechnic campus Library will be spending the first two days of the semester helping students navigate their way through the immense new buildings that opened this summer. Library representatives, armed with maps and free water, will be staffing two tables in an attempt to help students navigate their way through Polytechnic’s new 250,000 square-foot office/classroom complex.“Other than the library and the union, almost nothing is in the same place as it was before,” said Mike Wirtz, Library Supervisor at the Polytechnic campus. “Classrooms have moved, faculty offices have moved, entire departments have moved, even the sidewalks have moved – I think there are going to be a lot of confused students on the first day. We’ll try to make it a little less confusing.”

Last year, the Polytechnic library’s help tables assisted more than 500 students with finding their way around the construction. Wirtz anticipates they will help more this semester.

“Everyone is saying that this semester will mark the ‘rebirth’ of the Polytechnic campus,” Wirtz said. “It’s a pretty exciting time out here.”