Guide to College Library builders & planners: use this quick guide as a jumping-off point for your library planning initiative - College Libraries

University Business, Oct, 2002

Projects include: Undergraduate Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI; Mt. Vernon College, Washington, DC

Firm: PERRY DEAN ROGERS PARTNERS ARCHITECTS (www.perrydean.com)

Auras of focus: National recognized firm serving academic and cultural institutions

Project include: Health Sciences and Human Services Library, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University, Northfield, VT; Morgan Library Addition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; John Deaver Drinko Library and Information Center, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; Waidner Library Expansion, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; James A. Cannavino Library, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Firm: ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS (www.ramsa.com)

Areas of focus: Architects, Landscape architects, and interior designers with design philosophy of buildings in harmony with the aesthetic and cultural values of buildings around them.

Projects include: Spangler Campus Center, Harvard Business School Boston, MA; Moore Psychology Building, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Smith Campus Center, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME; Ohrstrom Library, St. Paul's School Concord, NH; Pequot Library, Southport, CT; Main Library, Columbus, GA

Firm: SHEPLEY BULFINCH RICHARDSON AND ABBOTT (www.sbra.com)

Areas of focus: Architecture, planning, interior design

Projects include: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY; Cornell Campus Center, Rollins College, Winter Park, FI; Library for the Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA; Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Library and Science Facility, Dana Hall School Wellesley, MA

Firm: SMITHGROUP (www.smithgroup.com)

Areas of focus: Architecture, engineering, and planning; oldest continuously practicing architectural & engineering firm in U.S.

Projects include: Catholic University of America School of Law, Washington, DE; Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, IN; Postech-Pohang University of Science & Technology Library, Pohang, Korea

Firm: ZIMMER GUNSUL FRASCA PARTNERSHIP (www.zgf.com)

Areas of focus: Architecture, planning, interior design

Projects include: The Science Center/Schow Science Library, Williams College, Williamstown, MA; Hauser Library, Gray Campus Center, Reed College, Portland, OR; Physical Sciences Research Building, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University Center, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center, Willamette University, Salem, OR; Institute for Translational Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

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