{"id":69922,"date":"2019-06-24T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=69922"},"modified":"2019-06-24T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:23:24","slug":"dbj-wright-state-invests-1-1m-in-library-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/24\/dbj-wright-state-invests-1-1m-in-library-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"DBJ: Wright State invests $1.1M in library upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/24\/dbj-wright-state-invests-1-1m-in-library-upgrades\/library-furniture\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69934\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-69934\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/06\/library-furniture-508x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>Nearly a year after receiving $13.5 million from the state capital budget,\u00a0Wright State University\u00a0is putting those dollars to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\">Wright State has invested $1.1 million in renovations to the Dunbar Library at its main campus in Fairborn.\u00a0In August, the library received state funding for two projects:\u00a0$600,000 to replace carpet and $500,000 for a modernization initiative to renovate and increase study spaces and replace furniture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\">The funding allowed Wright State to offer 40 percent more seating at the library, which includes a variety of new furniture. In addition, more than 200 outlets and 150 USB ports have been added, along with new study booths, four sit-stand desks, 13 bookable study spaces, new whiteboards on wheels, computers with dual monitors and four bicycle desks students can use while they work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\">The library renovation was part of a larger initiative to address several deferred-maintenance projects at the university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\">Wright State received $650,000 to renovate and repair portions of the tunnel system, and nearly $1.3 million to support an upgrade to the wireless infrastructure of the entire Dayton campus. The upgrades began this past fall in Hamilton Hall and Forest Lane, which are residence halls.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2019\/06\/21\/wright-state-invests-1-1m-in-library-upgrades.html\">Dayton Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a year after receiving $13.5 million from the state capital budget,\u00a0Wright State University\u00a0is putting those dollars to work. Wright State has invested $1.1 million in renovations to the Dunbar Library at its main campus in Fairborn.\u00a0In August, the library &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/06\/24\/dbj-wright-state-invests-1-1m-in-library-upgrades\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":69934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69942,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69922\/revisions\/69942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}