Officials are making plans to restore the main Kansas State University library after a blaze caused extensive smoke and water damage.
The Manhattan Mercury reports that students were invited Tuesday to offer input on the renderings of the inside of Hale Library. The building was undergoing renovations in May when a fire broke out. Plans calls for renovating all four floors of the building.
The renderings call for an innovation lab on the first and second floors, connected by a staircase, expanded athlete tutoring space in the Student Success Center and new classroom spaces scattered throughout the building.
The dean of libraries, Lori Goetsch, says the biggest change students can expect is the innovation lab and maker space.
Those areas will be full of virtual reality and artificial intelligence equipment.
The Associated Press contributed to this article