Floors 6 and 8 are "quiet study floors" and floor 7 is a "silent study floor". All floors except floor 1 provide individual alcoves for students or members of the public who are engaged in research for their studies. The fourth floor is dedicated to students with their laptops, and the lower floors provide large round tables for people to meet at. The lower level, second and third floors are where the majority of the public computers are located. As of May 2016, that display showed a figure of over 177 million. On floor 1, in the atrium, a large LED display shows in real time the number of item loans (books and other media such as CDs and DVDs) that the entire City Library System has made since 2000. The center of the building is known as the Koret Atrium. Some duplicate volumes exist in both systems. The volumes of the University Library (known also as the Research Collection) are shelved on floors 6 to 8 and are indexed via the Library of Congress Classification System. There, the non-fiction are indexed via the Dewey Decimal Classification and the fiction are sorted alphabetically by author's last name. The volumes of the City Library system are shelved on floor 3. The reference collections are on floor 2. The lower level (below floor 1) provides public computers, magazines and government documents. The library building can accommodate over 2000 visitors. On its tenth anniversary in 2013 it was still the largest joint university-municipal library in the United States. In 2004 it was honored as Library of the Year by Library Journal and Thomson Gale, for its collaborative combination of the two functions as well as for the building. The King Library is a collaboration between the City of San José and San José State University: it is the main library for both San José State University and the San José Public Library system. As of 2018, it is the largest library building in the western United States built in a single construction project, with over 475,000 square feet (44,000 m 2) of space on eight floors and approximately 1.6 million volumes. Library (also known locally as the MLK Library or the King Library) is an 8-story public library and university library, located in downtown San Jose, California, which had its grand opening on August 16, 2003.
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