Libraries are so much more than books and a lady in cat glasses shushing you.  They are essential community support spaces, facilitating academic support for students, civic meetings, life skill classes for adults, and on and on.  And not least, a quiet place where you can simply exist without having to buy anything.

Lighting for such a programmatically dense facility must balance many overlapping technical criteria, while never losing sight of the overarching goal of creating an approachable and pleasant environment with a sense of civic place. 

While every project is unique, it’s helpful to have experience thinking about the individual components of a library and how they fit together.