Chancellor Victor Boschini announced the plans to upgrade the library in an email sent to students Feb. 28.

While there are no blueprints  for an overall change yet, the library is gearing up for other tweaks including the opening of the quiet section to 24 hours, Dean of the Library June Koelker said.

The most immediate plan extends the 1920s reading room, Koelker said. This plan has been sent to physical plant.

Once the extension has been made, the quiet section hours can increase to 24 hours, five days a week, similar to the loud section.

The major issue with the library is the lack of seating, Koelker said. With just under 900 seats the library gets crowded fast. Each semester the library turnstiles register at least one visit from 85 percent of the active TCU ID’s she said.

In terms of total visits a semester, the library has about 300,000. Any university should have seating for at least 20 percent of its student population and as of now TCU’s is not hitting 10 percent, she said. Seating needs to increase in terms of tables, group study rooms, the bistro area and pods.

The seating issue also extends to the graduate studies. Currently the library only offers seven scholar study rooms she said. These room are reserved for graduate students working on their dissertations and use an extensive amount of library research materials.

These rooms act as the graduate students offices, she said. TCU needs to expand the number to the dozens in order to support the needs of the graduate programs.