There used to be a little garden with a large sculpture (a rusty metal knot) in the courtyard where all the construction is going on now as you enter Perkins. What happened to the sculpture after it was removed? And what’s going up in that space now?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The sculpture is out behind the Old Chem building, but that’s not its final location and AP doesn’t know its final disposition (I don’t think they’ve decided). The structure being built in the former courtyard is called “The Pavilion.” It will be a fancy coffee shop with glass walls — sort of a modernized luxury version of The Perk — to bring the library a little closer to the Barnes & Noble model of information dissemination. In the lower right of the library homepage there’s a link to the Perkins Project web pages http://www.lib.duke.edu/perkproj/ — the expansion and renovation of the library — including some renderings that show the new Pavilion (the view is really looking from the approximate north at Old Chem, looking south; Languages is on the left): http://www.lib.duke.edu/perkproj/eastsite_sml.html . Here’s a nice floor plan: http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/091002/books-plan-lg.html .