C.V. Starr Library under construction, June 2007

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I believe they're still moving desks into the top-floor study area. That's what the little stumps in the ground must be for. In the meantime, the armchairs all seem to share a certain soporofic quality.

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LOTS and LOTS of natural lighting, unlike so many East Asian libraries I've been in.

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The looong hallway with the browsing shelf is a little weird -- apparently this is what the architects originally had in mind for reading space, but luckily they managed to find spaces for actual, usable desks.

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Great sense of depth.

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The media room is actually important enough to have its own entrance!

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Towards the main entrance.

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This is what the study carrels look like. Professor Yeh (and her husband) have a study area named after them.

Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan

by J.I. Crump