project in the University of Kentucky's history. The deed at the ceremony was handed over from the Alumni Association to the university. Relocation of library media Moving the books from the former Margaret I. King Library to the new William T. Young Library was not an easy task. If stretched out from end-to-end, the number of books in the old library would snake from Lexington to St. Louis. The university hired William B. Meyer, part of United Van Lines, to move 1.2 million volumes from four locations. The move took eight weeks to complete, beginning on May 11, 1998, at a cost of $500,000. 74 part-time laborers were involved at a cost of 34,560 person-hours. During this time, all books were kept in circulation and if a student were to request a volume, it would be accessible "within twenty-four hours." Adding on to the complications was the fact that 700,000 of the existing volumes had to be converted from the antiquated Dewey decimal system to the Library of Congress Classification system. Features Exterior The library was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, Inc. of Boston, in association with Nolan and Nolan of Louisville, and the construction cost was $58 million. Its exterior features a unique octagonal shape, two-story brick-and-stone arcades on each facade and two-story windows. Interior The six-story library contains over 1.2 million volumes and can seat over 4,000 patrons; 3,000 of these seats are in open-floor plan regions, with the remainder located in group study rooms. Each seat is equipped with or adjacent to a computer data jack. Initially, there were 600 desktop computers available, three times as many as was in the former Margaret I. King Library, and 40 laptop computers, half of which were wireless utilizing cellular phone access cards. When it was constructed, it was the only library in the country to house all of its volumes on mobile compact shelves which are controlled by the push of a button. This innovative method of storing thousands of books in a relatively small amount of space freed room for work spaces, study halls and reading rooms. The lobby features Treuchtlingen marble mined from southern Germany. The layout of the interior is reminiscent of a "building within a building" concept, with a center atrium that houses the administration area on the first floor and reading rooms on the second and fifth floors. The rotunda is surrounded