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Architecture and Design Collection – Dean Marvin J. Malecha’s Papers

Design Library News - Tue, 2014-09-02 08:20

Post contributed by Sarah Breen, Library Associate.

Cal Poly Amphitheater Concept Sketch

Marvin J. Malecha, dean of North Carolina State University’s College of Design and professor of architecture, has contributed to the profession through wide-ranging endeavors as a practicing architect, educator, administrator, researcher, and member and leader of professional organizations. In 2011, Dean Malecha shared a sample of sketches with the public through an exhibition held by NCSU Libraries. Prior to joining the University as dean of the College of Design, Malecha was dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he was active in teaching and research.

North Carolina State University Mace

The Special Collections Research Center in NCSU Libraries holds a collection of Malecha’s papers containing drawings, concept sketches, prototypes, correspondence, speeches, articles and papers, publications, personal notes, meeting minutes and conference notes, presentation materials and photographic materials related to his work over the last five decades. Malecha has contributed more than just leadership to the university–he has also designed images for various departments, the University Mace, and has led the design effort for the Chancellor’s Residence on NCSU’s Centennial Campus.

Angels in the Architecture

To read more about the Marvin J. Malecha Papers, take a look at the guide to the collection found here.

Hunt Library listed as one of the world’s most spectacular

NCSU Libraries News - Thu, 2014-08-21 16:28

Echoing Oliver Wendell Holmes’ declaration that the Boston Public Library is “a palace for the people,” The San Francisco Chronicle has listed the Hunt Library among “the most spectacular libraries in the world.”

Hunt Library listed as one of the world’s most spectacular

Echoing Oliver Wendell Holmes’ declaration that the Boston Public Library is “a palace for the people,” The San Francisco Chronicle has listed the Hunt Library among “the most spectacular libraries in the world.”

NCSU Libraries offering grants to help faculty develop free or low-cost open textbook alternatives

NCSU Libraries News - Thu, 2014-08-21 16:02

(Raleigh, N.C.)—In the latest of several initiatives designed to help students reduce the expense of textbooks as part of their university educations and make it easier for faculty to explore and create new resources for their teaching, the NCSU Libraries is inviting North Carolina State University faculty to apply for grants to adopt, adapt, or create free or low-cost open alternatives to today’s expensive textbooks.

Ranging between $500 and $2,000, the competitive Alt-Textbook grants will be awarded to help faculty pursue innovative uses of technology and information resources that can replace pricey traditional textbooks.  Larger grants may be available for larger-scale or especially high-impact projects.

Textbook costs have outpaced inflation by 300% over the last 30 years. These runaway prices have become a major strain on students, with textbooks averaging $1,200 a year and 7 out of 10 students admitting on a recent Public Interest Research Group survey that they have not purchased a required text because of its cost.

Grants are available to develop textbook alternatives for the Spring 2015 and Fall 2015 semesters. Possible approaches include:

  • creating a new open textbook or collection of materials
  • adopting an existing open textbook
  • assembling a collection of open resources into new course materials
  • licensing an e-textbook, video, or other media content for classroom use or e-reserves
  • using subscribed library resources

As faculty work on their proposals, NCSU librarians are available to collaborate and to share expertise in copyright, licensing, open access, course management software and tools, electronic reserves, subject-matter content, and multimedia resources.

“Academic libraries have always been a powerful way to reduce the financial burden of a university education by pooling key resources for everyone to use,” reminds Susan K. Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of the NCSU Libraries. “The Alt-Textbook grants offer an innovative way to leverage that advantage in the digital age while at the same time giving our faculty a powerful tool to tailor their course materials to the exact needs of their students.”

The NCSU Libraries will hold several information sessions about the project in September.  Faculty can learn more about the project, review the call for proposals, sign up for information sessions, and download grant applications at the Alt-Textbook Project website.

The Alt-Textbook initiative builds on a successful partnership with the university’s Physics Department that resulted in a free physics e-textbook that is now used by 1,300 NC State students each year.

Other NCSU Libraries initiatives to reduce costs for students include providing at least one copy of every required course book on reserve each semester, supplying online reserves to electronically disseminate materials within the bounds of copyright law, and Library Course Tools, an innovative use of the Libraries’ website to present custom, course-related library content for every course at the university.

Alt-Textbook is supported by a grant from the NC State University Foundation.

WRAL: “Hunt Library hailed as a modern marvel”

NCSU Libraries News - Mon, 2014-08-18 14:20

WRAL explores how the extensive press coverage about the Hunt Library has raised the profile of N.C. State, North Carolina, and the Raleigh community in global discussions about innovative research and education.

WRAL: “Hunt Library hailed as a modern marvel”

WRAL explores how the extensive press coverage about the Hunt Library has raised the profile of N.C. State, North Carolina, and the Raleigh community in global discussions about innovative research and education.

Free Workshops for Makers and Creators at the Libraries

NCSU Libraries News - Fri, 2014-08-15 15:03

Do you want to build a robot that interacts with Twitter, a banana piano, or your own wearable electronics project? Are you interested in learning about 3D Printing but aren’t sure where to start? The Libraries are offering several exciting Makerspace workshops this semester that will provide an awesome introduction to a variety of innovative technologies. All workshops are free for all NCSU students, faculty, and staff, and no prior experience is required to participate!

Register here for workshops: Getting Started with 3D Printing - Friday Aug. 29, 2-3:30pm, Hunt Introduction to Arduino & MaKey MaKey - Thursday Sept. 4, 6-7:30pm, Hill Getting Started with 3D Design - Friday Sept. 12, 2-3:30pm, Hill Getting Started with 3D Printing - Tuesday Sept. 30, 6-7:30pm, Hill Introduction to Arduino & MaKey MaKey - Friday, Oct. 3, 2-3:30pm, Hunt Getting Started with 3D Design - Thursday Oct. 9, 6-7:30pm, Hunt Introduction to Arduino & MaKey MaKey - Tuesday Oct. 21, 6-7:30pm, Hunt Spooky Sounds with Arduino - Tuesday Oct. 28, 6-7:30pm, Hill
A full calendar of workshops is also available at go.ncsu.edu/makerworkshops

The new Ask Us center at the D. H. Hill Library

NCSU Libraries News - Thu, 2014-08-14 13:28

D. H. Hill Library has some changes! You’ll now find the Ask Us center at the top of the main staircase on the First Floor. Just look for the big red-and-white Ask Us sign!

Need to find data or information for your research project? Need help using iMovie? Need to check out a charger? Need to print a poster? Everything you need is in the main lobby on the First Floor. You’ll find friendly staff ready to help.

Library staff are also happy to help you online. Just look for the Ask Us link on the library’s website. You can chat, call, text, or request an in-depth research consultation with a librarian. No matter where you are—in the library, on campus, in your dorm, in your office—we’re ready to help!

UNC-TV airs documentary on the Dorton Arena that features Special Collections items

Design Library News - Fri, 2014-08-01 15:47

UNC-TV recently aired a brief documentary program on the Dorton Arena that includes several items from Special Collections, including an architectural model (see above image) of the Dorton Arena.

The documentary included an interview with NCSU School of Architecture’s Alumni Distinguished Professor of Architecture Dr. Wayne Place, who noted that the architects of the Dorton Arena were “pushing the envelope in ways that are almost unimaginable.” The Dorton Arena was conceived of by the Polish modernist architect Matthew Nowicki, but completed by William Henley Dietrich after Nowicki’s untimely death in a plane crash over North Africa. The documentary includes several images of Nowicki’s drawings of the Dorton Arena as he began to conceptualize the design of the building.

William Henley Deitrick’s drawings of the Dorton Arena that represent the final design can be viewed here.

For more information about the Special Collections Research Center and architectural materials, please contact us at library_specialcollections@ncsu.edu

New books received this summer

Design Library News - Fri, 2014-08-01 10:26

BH201.K67 2010  Which “Aesthetics” Do You Mean?  : ten definitions

D848.F66 2009  A Grin Without A Cat (dvd)

GT511.B74 1995 The Culture of Fashion

GT511.F37 2007 Fashion Theory : a reader

GT511.W54 2013  Adorned in Dreams

GT525.A75 2001 Fashion, Desire, and Anxiety

GT525.E34 2011 Fashion in Focus : concepts, practices, and politics

GT525.E57 2000  The Fashioned Body

GT596.D57 2012  1930s Fashion : the definitive sourcebook

GT596.D57 2013  1940s Fashion : the definitive sourcebook

GT596.V35 2014  Valentin Yudashikin

GT2110.S356 2014  Hats by Madame Paulette

GV1469.62.F56 H37 2007  Final Fantasy XII : the complete guide

GV1469.62.F56 P75 2012  Final Fantasy XIII-2 : the complete official guide

HD7288.78.C72 H47 2013  Public Space in Informal Settlements : the barrios of Bogota

HF5430.5.N48 W66 2010  Street Value : shopping, planning and politics at Fulton Mall

HM1231.M39 2013  Spinfluence : the hardcore propaganda manual for controlling the masses

HQ1154.H86 2012  American Women in Cartoons, 1890-1920

HT166.K588 2011 Cities and Design

KF390.A7 C73 2010  Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (5th edition)

LB1050.5.I2 2014  I Wonder What It’s Like to be Dyslexic

N71.F653 2003  Art Theory : a very short introduction

N72.F45 P655 2013  Politics in a Glass Case : feminism, exhibition cultures, and curatorial transgressions

N72.G46 S784 2012  L’Europe en un Clin D’Oeil

N6484.I57 S74 2013  Interactive Art and Embodiment

N6494.I56 B66 2009  Installations by Architects : experiments in building and design

N6494.I57 K89 2013  Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

N6537.N644 A4 2011  British Rubbish

N6537.R27 A63 2013  Rauschenberg Canyon

N6888.M835 A4 2014 Rolf Muller : stories, systems, marks

N7260.A8165 2013  150 Asian Creatives

N7433.84.C6 C4 2013  CG Galaxy : top Chinese CG artists and their works

N7433.84.C6 S44 2013  CG Galaxy II : top Chinese CG artists and their works

N7593.3.F33 2013  Face Value : portraiture in the age of abstraction

N7618.H35 2014  The Self-Portrait : a cultural history

N7660.T65 2011  Creatures’ Paradise : animals in art from the Kyoto National Museum

N8217.B85 K58 2013  Designing Legends

N8217.C63 H64 1993  Seeing Through Clothes

N8243.S57 E46 2013  Art of the Skull

NA31.J36 2014  Fundamental Concepts of Architecture

NA105.V58 2014  Architectural Heritage Revisited : a holistic engagement of its tangible and intangible constituents

NA200.M38 2011 Meuser Architekten : buildings and projects 1995-2010

NA203.B64 2014 Architectural Atmospheres : on the experience and politics of architecture

NA680.L47 2014  Lessons from Modernism : environmental design strategies in architecture 1925-1970

NA712.F57 2012 Packard Chilton

NA737.H56 A4 2014  Urban Hopes  : made in China

NA737.L25 A4 2014  Lake / Flato Houses : embracing the landscape

NA737.S64 A4 2014  Designs for Living : houses by Robert A.M. Stern Architects

NA737.T494 A4 2014 Tihany : iconic hotel and restaurant interiors

NA747.T6 A75 2014  Making Toronto Modern

NA879.V47 S56 2013  Simon Velez : architect / mastering / bamboo

NA1053.V7 B74 2014  Architecture and the Historical Imagination

NA1080.M65 M47 2014  Mies

NA1115.B86 2012  Italian Renaissance Architecture

NA1115.W49 2014  Victorian Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture

NA1121.M6 M39 2013  Fascism, Architecture, And The Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922-1943

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NA1313.D63 A4 2013  Diaz & Diaz Arquitectos : architecture and site

NA1460.A625 2014  Architecturalized Asia : mapping a continent through history

NA1545.C66 2014  Constructing the Colonized Land : entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII

NA1549.S36 D46 2014  Luke Him Sau, Architect : China’s missing modern

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NA1995.A334 2013  AIA Compensation Report 2013

NA18995.J46 2014  Mapping the Global Architect of Alternity : practice, representation, and education

NA1995.P74 2014  Designing Relationships : the art of collaboration in architecture

NA1995.W35 2014  Becoming an Architect  (third edition)

NA2000.K76 2014  What an Architecture Student Should Know

NA2300.A9 F74 2014  Rural Studio at Twenty : designing and building in Hale County, Alabama

NA2340.Y679955 2014  Young Architects 15 : range

NA2500.E54 2014 Emerging Landscapes : between production and representation

NA2540.L255 2014  The Air From Other Planets : a brief history of the architecture to come

NA2542.36.P482 2014  Material Revolution II : new sustainable and multi-purpose materials for design and architecture

NA2542.36.T333 2013  The Greening of Architecture : a critical history and survey of contemporary sustainable architecture and urban design

NA25423.4.C655 2014  The Architecture of Luxury

NA2542.4.D36 2014  Places of the Soul : architecture and environmental design as healing art (3rd edition)

NA2543.G46 T47 2013  The Territories of Identity : architecture in the age of evolving globalisation

NA2543.S6 A435 2014  Traditions : the ‘real’, the hyper and the virtual in the built environment

NA2543.S6 A44 2014  American City “X” : Syracuse after the master plan

NA2543.S6 C654 2014  Consuming Architecture : on the occupation, appropriation, and interpretation of buildings

NA2543.S6 M39 2014  Radical Cities

NA2543.S6 P85 2013  The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places

NA2728.C625 2013  Digital poetics : an open theory of design-research in architecture

NA2750.D413 2013  Design Research in Architecture : an overview

NA2750.M85 2014  Ecology and the Architectural Imagination

NA2750.T69 2014 Toward an Integral Practice of Architecture

NA2760.C64 2013  Beyond Beauty : reexamining architectural proportion through the Basilicas of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito in Florence

NA2760.M4413 2013  Elements of Architecture : from form to place + tectonics

NA4412.W4 W55 2014  Cass Gilbert’s West Virginia State Capitol

NA4430.C58 2014  City Halls and Civic Materialism : towards a global history of urban public space

NA4443.W3 S45 2014 The Architecture of Diplomacy : the British ambassador’s residence in Washington

NA5468.P76 2014  Building the Modern Church

NA5471.O9 K46 2013  The Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford

NA6040.L53 2012  Ritual and Ceremonial Buildings

NA6141.B67 2014  Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome

NA6230.D38 2013  The Style of Coworking : contemporary shared workspaces

NA6230.T35 2014  Tall and Supertall Buildings

NA6603.G78 2014  White Elephants on Campus : the decline of the university chapel in America, 1920-1960

NA6695.S45 2014  The Architecture of Art Museums

NA7235.C2 W42 2009  Ranch Houses : living the California dream

NA9050.M48x 2013 Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism

NA9052.Y68 2014  Street Art, Public City : law, crime, and the urban imagination

NA9085.H35 H57 2014  City Choreographer : Lawrence Halprin  in urban renewal America

NA9095.E94 2014  Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture

NC251.M45 A4 2013  Ludwig Meidner : catalog raisonne of his sketchbooks

NC590.M55 2014  Apple : learning to design, designing to learn

NC973.8.Y65 Y65 2013  Tadanori Yokoo 1957-2012 : complete book designs

NC974.5.V63 K35 2011  Vogue : the covers

NC997.G57 2013  Girly & Cute Graphics

NC997.S54 2013  Type Only : unit 12

NC998.4.T32 2013  Texts : Graphic 2007-2011 (no. 1-20)

NC998.5.A1 F66 2014  The Business Side of Creativity : the comprehensive guide to starting and running a small graphic design or communications business

NC999.4.D68 A4 2014  Black Panther : the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas

NC999.4.S45 A4 2014  Self-Help Graphics : art in the heart of east Los Angeles (2nd edition)

NC1001.S76 2010  Managing the Design Process

NC1001.5.F66 2011  The 2011 FPO Awards

NC1766.U53 G63 2014  Godzilla : the art of destruction

ND196.A2 S25 2012  Journeys to Abstraction

NK1484.A1 R48 2013  Retro Designs of Japan : ready to use ornaments and frames

NK1484.A1 T69 2014  Traditional Japanese Patterns and Motifs

NK1505.D474 2014  Design School Wisdom : make first, stay awake, and other essential lessons for work and life

NK1520.D33 2013  D.A. : a transdisciplinary handbook of design anthropology

NK1520.M55 2013  Self-Portrait as Your Traitor

NK8812.N49 2014 A Stitch in Time : the needlework of aging women in antebellum America

NK8880.A1 A3 2013  Textiles from Borneo : Iban, Kantu, Ketungau and Mualang peoples

NK9112.S625 2013  Amish Quilts : crafting an American icon

NK9444.N68 L33 2013  Lace Here Now

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NK7310.5.L3 2013  21st-Century Jewellery Designers : an inspired style

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PN1997.A32 2002  Accion Mutante (dvd)

PN1997.G74 2010  Greatest Gangster Films Collection (dvd)

PN1997.T3745 2010  TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection  : sci-fi adventures

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TE301.N38 2014  Urban Bikeway Design Guide

TH4961.D86 2011  Technology and the Garden

TK7836.K79 1999  Digital Dreams : the work of the Sony Design Center

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TS171.4.D46 2014  Product Design

TS171.4.M55 2013  Research Methods for Product Design

TT497.G95 2014  A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion

TT505.H4 A33 2008  Edith Head’s Hollywood

TT505.J36 K63X 2014  Charles James

TT505.R42 B38 2012  Maurice Renoma : a singular adventure

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TT848.C43 2013  Charlotte Glencross : the fabric of her life

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Z250.5.L6 Y68 2003  The Art of the Letter

The Farm at Black Mountain College: A Hunt Library Happening

Join David Silver, Visiting Scholar at the NCSU Libraries, for a multimedia happening that chronicles the rise and fall of Black Mountain College, founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina. There will be two performances on Monday, August 4. The morning performance will start at 10:30 a.m. and conclude at noon. The evening performance will start at 7 p.m. and conclude at 8:30 p.m. Both performances will start at the Hunt Library iPearl Immersion Theater.

Education practitioners can still learn from what worked and what didn’t work at Black Mountain College, especially here at NC State where several of the College’s principles are still at work. Focusing on the Black Mountain College farm and work program, Silver will lead an exploration of the College’s lesser-known but vitally important participants. David Silver is associate professor of media studies, environmental studies, and urban agriculture at University of San Francisco.

Using the entire Hunt Library as a storytelling building and featuring never-before-seen photographs, this dynamic event will examine the most experimental college in American history. Silver will employ an unconventional storytelling approach that unfolds as participants walk through the building.

Free and open to the public. Presented by the NCSU Libraries. For more information contact Mike Nutt at mrnutt@ncsu.edu.

The Farm at Black Mountain College: A Hunt Library Happening

NCSU Libraries News - Mon, 2014-07-28 08:54

Join David Silver, Visiting Scholar at the NCSU Libraries, for a multimedia happening that chronicles the rise and fall of Black Mountain College, founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina. There will be two performances on Monday, August 4. The morning performance will start at 10:30 a.m. and conclude at noon. The evening performance will start at 7 p.m. and conclude at 8:30 p.m. Both performances will start at the Hunt Library iPearl Immersion Theater.

Education practitioners can still learn from what worked and what didn’t work at Black Mountain College, especially here at NC State where several of the College’s principles are still at work. Focusing on the Black Mountain College farm and work program, Silver will lead an exploration of the College’s lesser-known but vitally important participants. David Silver is associate professor of media studies, environmental studies, and urban agriculture at University of San Francisco.

Using the entire Hunt Library as a storytelling building and featuring never-before-seen photographs, this dynamic event will examine the most experimental college in American history. Silver will employ an unconventional storytelling approach that unfolds as participants walk through the building.

Free and open to the public. Presented by the NCSU Libraries. For more information contact Mike Nutt at mrnutt@ncsu.edu.

Wall Street Journal: Hunt Library helps inspire New York Public Library renovation

Citing the need for inspiring “collaborative spaces, stocked with tools for creative projects,” the New York Public Library looks to the Hunt Library for the planned renovation of its landmark Fifth Avenue building.

Civets and Tarsiers and Tapirs (oh my!)

NRL News - Tue, 2014-06-03 13:11

This post is contributed by Ashley Williams, Project Archivist, Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Collections.

Included in the Animal Welfare Institute Records is a collection of photographs by Ernest P. Walker. When I first encountered the photographs I was amazed by the sheer variety of animals photographed. There are pictures of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!), but also several animals I had never heard of or did not know what they looked like: civets, lemmings, tapirs, and tarsiers (also known as bush babies), to name a few. I was intrigued to learn about these animals and curious as to the images I would come across. The collection did not disappoint.

Civet

Given the number and quality of the photographs, I realized this collection was likely not created by an average animal-loving person. My thoughts turned to “who in the world is Ernest P. Walker and why did he take all of these pictures?” I was quickly able to learn more about him: he worked as a warden and inspector for the United States Bureau of Fisheries in Alaska in the 1910s upon graduating from college. After a three year stint as a game warden in Arizona and California, Walker returned to Alaska in 1921 with the United States Biological Survey as a fur and game warden and executive officer for the Alaska Game Commission. In 1927, Walker moved to Washington, DC and assumed the role of assistant director of the National Zoological Park in 1930, where he remained until 1956.

Lemming

Walker was more concerned with mammals as living animals rather than their individual biological components. Over the years, he observed their feeding habits, care of young, and other behavioral characteristics and began taking photographic portraits of many species. To observe certain small mammals more closely than his duties at the zoo would allow, he brought them into his home as pets. Most of the photographs date from his term as assistant director.

Tarsier

Upon retiring from the National Zoo, Walker, along with his qualified assistants, compiled data, prepared photographs, and arranged a manuscript into what would become the three-volume Mammals of the World. Two of his other works are Walker’s Bats of the World and Walker’s Primates of the World, all of which are available at the NCSU Libraries. Information about the animals’ breeding, habitats, food, and physical description, along with a photograph or illustration, is included for all but four animals. Additionally, Walker wrote two books for the Animal Welfare Institute: First Aid and Care of Small Mammals and Studying Small Mammals.

South American Tapir

To learn more about Ernest Walker’s photographs, or about the Animal Welfare Institute Records, be sure to check out the collection guide.

The Hunt Library honored for public relations and interior design

The James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University has been recognized with two of the library profession’s most prestigious honors: a 2014 John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award and a 2014 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award.

Sponsored by EBSCO, the H.W. Wilson Foundation, and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award has been given annually since 1946 to celebrate excellence in library public relations. The communications to open the Hunt Library were recognized for creating “a bold, new campaign that helped the community imagine ‘The Library of the Future.’”  “The true star of this campaign,” the award concluded, “was the way the community told the story. Students were asked to imagine themselves in the space, and they took to the challenge wholeheartedly.”

Sponsored by the International Interior Design Association and the ALA, the Library Interior Design Award honors “excellence in aesthetics, design, creativity, function, and satisfaction of the client’s objectives.”  The Hunt Library was recognized as winner of the “Academic Libraries, Over 30,000 sq. ft.” category.  The Hunt Library’s lead designer was Snøhetta; its executive architects were Clark Nexsen; and Another Inside Job consulted on interior design.  Gwendolyn Emery—the NCSU Libraries’ Director of Library Environments—as well as other library staff, also played a significant role in envisioning and creating the interior of the building.

“Our intent with the interior design of the Hunt Library was to create inspiring spaces that would encourage inspiring work,” says Susan K. Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of the NCSU Libraries. “We, in turn, have been inspired by just how much our students and faculty appreciate this building, and we are grateful that the IIDA and ALA have honored us for the interior design that is so much a part of this building’s appeal.”

“We are also proud and delighted,” she concludes, “that the communications about the Hunt Library have been able to further ongoing and fruitful discussions about the future of academic libraries, the centers of the learning and research that make universities so productive for our communities.”

Among other awards and prizes, the Hunt Library has also been recently honored with the 2014 Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL).

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