Hayden 2020 news
Where innovation is our No. 1 goal
Nowhere is the Hayden Library reinvention more evident than on the third floor – a space where people, ideas and technologies all come together for learning, creation and innovation. The three service centers housed on the third floor of Hayden Library take the ASU community beyond book collec...
Hayden2020: The Path to the Book Shelves
Hayden Library welcomed the first set of books into the renovated building on Friday, November 22, 2019, Here's a quick peek into their path from the Dircks moving truck to the shelves. The library's Open Stack Collections staff have carefully planned this move, identifyinig exactly what shel...
Hayden2020: Student Study Spaces
One of four presentation practice rooms found on the newly renovated Level 2 of Hayden Library Level 4 features a number of surprising study spaces nestled among the book shelves. ...
Hayden2020: The books are returning
When the books come back to Hayden Library, which is set to re-open this January, they will have a whole new look designed to engage, inform and inspire the community in which they live. Backed by data analysis and deep conversations with the ASU community, the books return...
Hayden Reinvention: October 2018 Update
The original lobby in transition, with the new elevator shafts visible at the back. We do monthly walkthroughs of rising Hayden with the contractors, partly to make sure we’re well informed and there are no surprises later on, but p...
Hayden Reinvention: Monthly Update (August 2018)
New openings in the floors on Levels 4 and 3 for the new elevator core. The work on Hayden tower is just short of six months old and making excellent progress. I have put together an album of the photos taken on this week’s formal ...
Update on progress - July 2018
We did the monthly walk-through of Hayden Library Tower and surrounds, with great progress on all sides. Almost all demolition is done and active construction is charging ahead, with something like 150 workers on site. For this month’s album with some small comments, see ...
An update on progress
Hayden reinvention The construction fence went up March 5, and work began immediately. The progress is remarkable. This is the second in an intermittent series of updates about that progress. I've also prepared a photo album from l...
Hayden Library 'reinvention' breaks new ground
The Arizona State University community gathered Friday, May 25 to celebrate the progressing transformation of its largest library at a groundbreaking ceremony, where ASU President Michael Crow and University Librarian Jim O'Donnell took a sledgehammer – literally – to old ideas about what a universi...