Administration in North Carolina Speeds Up NCSU Library as Stimulus
Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 1/21/2009
- Bond sale would help meet construction schedule
- $127 million library to open in 2012
- Library to be heart of “technopolis”
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(This article first appeared in the January 20 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.)
While California State University has put two library projects and other construction on hold, the new North Carolina Council of State—the nine statewide elected officials outside the Governor—announced a stimulus effort, accelerating the sale of bonds to finance the $127 million James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, scheduled for completion in late 2012.
The aim is to get the bonds process moving forward so that the funds will be in place, in this difficult economic environment, to meet an already very aggressive construction schedule, NCSU Libraries spokesman David Hiscoe told LJ.
The Hunt Library is named for North Carolina’s governor from 1977 to 1985 and 1993 to 2001 and aimed to serve as the heart of NCSU’s Centennial Campus, a “technopolis,” or research science park, where academia, government, and industry collaborate. The library, designed by the Norweigan firm Snøhetta, also will house the Institute for Emerging Issues, a public policy think tank established by Hunt.
Susan Nutter, vice provost and director of libraries for NCSU (and the 2005 Library Journal Librarian of the Year) calls the building “a vibrant intellectual and social forum for the campus community, showcasing the latest technologies and research achievements of the university… We seek nothing less than to create the best learning and collaborative space in the country.”
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