A number of years ago the section on PARKING in the School of Library and Information Science Bulletin began this way:
Parking at, or in the vicinity of, the University of Kentucky while classes are in ses-sion can be one of life's great challenges. A valid parking permit or pass is required to park on campus during restricted hours, and this requirement is enforced by lib-eral use of tow trucks, which quickly make believers out of the most skeptical.
If we were writing that today, we'd change it in several ways:
Our experience inclines us to comment that, if anything, parking on the street today is worse than when we wrote the statement, perhaps 10 years ago. The one important improvement is the parking garage, which is open to visitors - for a fee, of course.
If you have questions about parking at UK, go to that Web site: http://www.uky.edu/Parking/
If you are not familiar with Lexington, a good first step might be to go to http://www.uky.edu/CampusGuide/, scroll down to the map, click on PDF version of the map, and print the map. On the map you will see MAIN CAMPUS. That refers to the University of Kentucky main campus, which is a short distance south of downtown Lexington. We will provide a single set of direc-tions to campus. These directions won't be the shortest route in all cases, but our goal is to develop a sin-gle set.
Lexington is served by two interstate highways, I-75 (north/south) and I-64 (east/west), which are shown on the map. For a few miles from north to east of Lexington, the two interstates run together. These direc-tions assume a person comes to Lexington on one of the interstate highways.
On the segment where they run together, watch for exit 115 and take that exit. A person coming from the north on I-75 or the west on I-64 should bear right at the end of the exit ramp onto Newtown Pike or Road. A person coming from the south on I-75 or the east on I-64 should turn left at the end of the exit ramp, onto Newtown Pike or Road.
After several miles Newtown reaches West Main St. (At the intersection there are cemetery monument companies on the left and right corners, and the Salvation Army on the left corner across Main St.)
Turn left onto Main St. and then, after perhaps one-half mile, turn right onto Upper St. (I believe Up-per St is the 4th traffic light after turning onto Main St, but the names of the cross streets are prominent.)
Upper St traffic is one-way, and at some point get into the left lane. After a half-mile or so, Upper St ends at South Limestone. The two streets form a Y intersection, with Upper St the left arm of the Y. When you reach the end of Upper St, you want to turn left onto South Limestone, which puts you on the right arm of the Y. South Limestone traffic also is one-way; stay in the far left lane. Very soon you will pass under a pedestrian overpass; pull into the parking garage, which is attached to the left end of the overpass.
At this point we suggest you go back to http://www.uky.edu/CampusGuide/, slide the bar to the right, and click on interactive map. The parking garage and pedestrian overpass are on the map, but to display them we had to click on the lower arrowhead to the left of the map (Not the arrowhead at the bottom left corner; the one above that). When we did that, the parking garage and pedestrian overpass appeared in the bottom left of the map. The map is divided into rectangles, or segments, each designated by a 5-digit number. If you let the hand rest in a segment, its number appears. The parking garage is the large building in segment 2-02-07.
For the School of Library and Information Science, you want King Library. (Officially, Margaret I King Library, and therefore sometimes abbreviated as MI King Library.) It is in map segment 2-03-06, and, having clicked on the lower arrowhead to the left of the map, segment 2-03-06 is above the middle of the map and just to the left of center. King Library is the large building in the far right of the segment. If you click on a building, its name and picture appear. The front of Margaret I King Library appears in the map picture; to get to the School of Library and Information Science you must go to the entrance on the other end of King Library, and then to room 502.
If you are interested in the Patterson Office Tower, home of the Graduate School (on the third floor), you'll find it, too, in segment 2-03-06. It is the tall-looking white building near the bottom left corner of the segment.
We sometimes have events at what is generally referred to as the Faculty Club, sometimes referred to as the Boone Faculty Center, and whose official name may be the Hillary J Boone Center. On the interac-tive map, after we clicked on the lower arrowhead to the left of the map, the Boone Center/Faculty Club is the building with green roofs, to the right of the center of the map and near the top, in map segment 2-04-06.
People sometimes want to go to the Visitors Center and/or the University Bookstore. Both are in the Student Center Addition, near each other on the first floor. The Student Center Addition is in map seg-ment 2-02-06, near the left edge of the map, above the segment that includes the parking garage. The words VISITOR CENTER appear on the map, and they are printed on what is a surface parking lot. Most of the lot is reserved for faculty and staff, but there are a few metered parking spaces in the lot. The me-tered spaces are close to the Student Center Addition and are for visitors.
Some people have heard about and want to see UK's main library, the William T Young Library, which is a stunning building inside and out. To get it to appear on the interactive map, we had to click on the arrowhead at the top center of the map. Young Library is the prominent building near the top right corner of the map, segment 2-05-05.
Incidentally, the University of Kentucky has an excellent Web site. It is a gateway to a tremendous amount of information, and the site is easy to use. To get to it, go to www.uky.edu.