Featuring Brown University’s Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio at the Rockefeller Library; the Bibliothèque Desjardins, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Drummondville; the James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University; and the Information Commons at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.

Brown University’s
Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio at the
Rockefeller Library provides a flexible environment that fosters creativity; patrons can write on and move the walls.
CREDITS: Höweler + Yoon Architecture, LLP, architect; ©2016 John Horner, photo.

The
Bibliothèque Desjardins, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Drummondville, encompasses 20′ ceilings, four group study rooms, 100 individual study spaces, and a computer lab. The interior is entirely white, the “idea being that color will be added by the students.”
CREDITS: Daoust Lestage Inc., architect; Etienne Audet, photo.

A 2016
LJ academic New Landmark Library, the
James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, has a 300-seat event space, a ground-floor café, reading rooms and collaborative study spaces, and a high-performance building envelope with solar shading.
CREDITS: Shepley Bulfinch (design), Moseley Architects (architect of record), architects; Alan Jones © 2016 VCU University Marketing, photo.

A 1,300 square foot area previously hidden behind a stone wall became the
Information Commons at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. It’s glass-enclosed to open the space visually while maintaining an acoustical barrier.
CREDITS: Harvard Jolly Architecture, architect; ©2016 Rich Montalbano/RiMo Photo, LLC, photo.
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