UIS looks into building a branch of public library on campus

Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) and Springfield’s Lincoln (public) Library do a lot of things together. They have a reciprocal borrowing agreement, so people from UIS can borrow from Lincoln and Lincoln’s patrons can borrow from UIS’ library. Their Friends organizations hold fund-raisers together. Now the Brookens Library is looking into the possibility of building a branch of the public library on campus. A $35,000 Library Services and Technology Act grant will pay for a feasibility study to see if the plan would work and to start designing the branch.