Describes the Educational Resources Center at Clarkson College in Potsdam, NY, which opened in October of 1980 and makes extensive use of the new technologies. (CHC)

Addresses the need for electronic library security systems and uses a library's experiences as a background for discussing selection, operation, and maintenance of such a system. (DC)

The author objects to learning resources centers that are as flashy and sterile as supermarkets. He pleads for a return to the old-fashioned high school library: a dignified, spartan island of knowledge and tradition. (SJL)

Describes the collection and services offered by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library. (CHC)

Describes the new learning resource center facilities at Kauai Community College (Hawaii). (MB)

Describes the French government's plan for a new national library which would be a state-of-the-art showcase and the nation's largest postwar cultural project. The discussion covers plans for the proposed building, the nature of the new library, and the renovation and future role of the existing national library. (CLB)

Describes the facilities, collections and services of the Cincinnati Zoo Media Center Library. Plans for the future expansion of an extensive slide collection are discussed. (CLB)

Describes a renovation project in the children's section of the Kalamazoo Public Library that utilized the same space but made it more visually appealing through the use of art. Grants and other funding sources are described that helped provide for the creation of murals, soft sculpture, and stained glass windows. (LRW)

The problem of indoor air quality and sick-building syndrome in libraries is explained in terms of human health and comfort and the preservation of books and manuscripts. Ventilation and indoor pollutants are discussed, and a proactive strategy of prevention is recommended. (EAM)

Describes the eight libraries that are winners of the 1993 American Institute of Architects/American Library Association Library Buildings Awards and describes institutions' needs and building design. Facilities represented include university and public libraries, building expansions, historical renovations, a temporary structure, and a…

Describes facilities, collections, and services of the Greater Cairo Library, Mubarak Public Library, Heliopolis Public Library, and El Mustaqbal Library and Egyptian efforts to promote literacy and reading. (PEN)

Discussion of planning for academic library buildings focuses on the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) which is dedicated to academic planning, institutional decision making and resources planning, and facilities planning in higher education. Describes SCUP conferences and possibilities for assistance for academic libraries. (LRW)

Addresses how to integrate various types of light within the context of library design. Discusses light basics; the light spectrum; light measurement; reflectance; glare and brightness ratio; daylighting; electric lighting; and computer screens and lighting. Includes a checklist for plan review. (Author/LRW)

Librarians often face challenges in library configuration and lack of space, collection management, and ease of use. This article briefly describes the challenges and solutions to managing a divided education collection at a comprehensive state university, part of which is housed in the center core of a round building. (Contains 2 figures and 5…

This article reports on a library renovation at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona which incurs complaints from professors and librarians about a shift from print to online materials. The $60-million project at Cal Poly is providing a difficult lesson in the challenges of library renovation, and in the changing role of one of the…