Loyal Marston Science Library dwellers will soon have coffee at their fingertips.
A fifth campus Starbucks location is opening on the first floor of Marston at 8 a.m. Monday.
Starbucks will mirror the hours of the library, wrote Jill Rodriguez, Aramark district marketing program manager, in an email.
David Looney, associate director of the Business Services Division for Gator Dining Services, wrote in an email the Starbucks addition has been in the works since November 2013.
Looney said determining the price specific to the Starbucks project is complicated, as there were other construction projects at Marston.He estimated construction cost around $625,000.
Gator Dining Services has hired all new baristas for the Marston location, and it is fully staffed for Monday’s opening, Rodriguez said.
Valrie Minson, chairwoman of Marston Library and associate university librarian, wrote in an email that the new Starbucks is going to complement the newly renovated Collaboration Commons on the ground floor of Marston.
“(Because) it is fully integrated into the library space, customers will use the exterior doors during the weekday daylight hours and the interior doors after sundown and on weekends,” Minson said.
Vanessa Reigosa, 19, said she studies at Marston often because she likes the environment, as it is less crowded than some of the other libraries on campus.
The UF Latin American studies sophomore said she thinks more people will go to Marston rather than Library West because of its central location near Turlington Plaza.
However, this might come with negative consequences, she said.
“At first I thought it might make the lines less long like the other Starbucks locations,” Reigosa said, “but now I’m starting to just think it will just be a fifth Starbucks that will have really bad lines.”
[A version of this story ran on page 6 on 2/13/2015 under the headline “New Starbucks opens in Marston Science Library on Monday"]
Marston Science Library visitors walk by the entrance to Starbucks on the first floor Wednesday. The Starbucks on the ground floor of Marston will open Monday.
