Dundalk IT's new learning and information resource centre officially opened its doors last Friday. The building will accommodate a state-of-the-art library and information resource centre.
Unofficially open for the past three months, the library is "custom designed to facilitate a variety of learning styles".
Less than impressed, two Dundalk IT students recently wrote to EL to point out that there was one problem: only one printer for 2,600 students. The librarian Lorna O'Conner says this problem will soon be remedied as the tendering process for a print management system has been completed.
The building is dedicated to Dr T.K. Whitaker, who spent his formative years in Drogheda, Co Louth. Appointed secretary to the Department of Finance in 1956, he is credited with leading the change in economic policy in the period leading up to Ireland's entry to the EU in 1961.
The announcement last week that the Government has bought the former Carroll's factory for Dundalk IT and other State authorities is likely to have increased the celebrations.
