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The South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, is LEED Gold certified; the Advanced Learning Library branch of the Wichita Public Library, KS, has an outdoor reading terrace; at the core of the $2.6 million remodel of the White Plains Public Library, is The Hub

Getting mixed-use from the Seeley G. Mudd Library, Northwestern University; the material solution of choice for the University of Arkansas Library Annex, Fayetteville; updating a modernist structure at the Alcuin Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN

The Mitchell Street Branch of the Milwaukee Public Library, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the new Tukwila Library, King County Library System, WA, also houses public art; the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center, Marietta, GA, combines 31,000 square feet with a Maker space and a black box theater; the Arthenia L. Joyner University Area Community Library, Tampa, FL, partners with a magnet school; Oahu can boast a new member to its statewide Hawaiian system with the opening of the Nanakuli Public Library

The architects included here are those attributed to the featured projects

Check out Central Library of the Austin Public Library, TX, and the Learning Resource Center, Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY

The transformed 45-year-old Nash Library & Student Learning Commons, Gannon University; the Bizzell Memorial Library–Zarrow Family Faculty and Graduate Student Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, presents a new creative experience; the Idea Lab at DeWitt Wallace Library, Macalester College, St. Paul, is a Maker space and collaboration hub; The $29.3 million renovation of the Auraria Library, University of Colorado, Denver, has a noise-free environment.

The centerpiece of the Spielman Children’s Library, Port Washington, NY, serves as wayfinding; the theme of the Route 9 Library, New Castle, DE, is based on a local landmark tree; long clear span trusses eliminate columns in the new Five Forks Branch, Simpsonville, SC; the Richland Library Cooper, Columbia, SC, speaks to the patron base of mostly retirees and young families