Editor’s Update: Lucy’s Café at Linderman
We
hear a lot about identity theft these days. In the renovated
Linderman the very opposite has happened as the busy café
has gained a new identity, not lost one.
After a collaboration involving a student focus group and
the University Relations Internet and Design Service, the
café at Linderman now has an official name and logo: Lucy’s
Café at Linderman. The ground level café in the 1878 rotunda
is named after ASA Packer’s daughter Lucy Linderman who died
at age 41. Asa Packer gave $100,000 in her memory to
construct the library and support its collection.
For many years prior to the renovation, bound volumes of
general indexes and periodicals were shelved there but the
funky space now offers “leisure reading, ” coffee and a
light menu, alcoves with soft seating, and a bank of
computers for email checking. The logo appears on the coffee
cards distributed at Lucy’s that entitle the holder to a
free coffee after nine purchased cups. So raise a cup of
“joe” to Lucy.
--Sue Cady
Article posted February
2008
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