| A year ago, I didn\'t have a favorite place to read on campus, but when our library was renovated, it soon became my most relaxing place to read. The Educational Resource Center was refurbished from top to bottom. The falling ceiling tiles were replaced by bright white ones, and the peeling white walls were repainted in soft beiges and pale green. Even the cold tile floors were redone with multi-colored carpet tiles arranged in patterns. The best improvement to the library, however, was the seating. The old, torn cloth chairs and beaten-up wooden tables were discarded. Now there are modern stuffed chairs covered in earth-colored woolen fabrics and reddish wood tables that gleam with polish. Instead of the industrial lamps that used to hang over the tables, there are long, black metal fluorescent lamps with bulbs just bright enough to read by, but not overpowering. Under one of these lamps, seated in a comfortable stuffed chairs at a quiet back table, you will often find me reading a novel or a magazine. |