We need a second library.

[BroadwayVik]

According to the head librarian, the city, apparently, will not allow vertical expansion of the Millar Library. Thus, we will need to construct a second library building so as be able to house on stacks the rather vast collection reserve the library has in storage in and around the city.

Where should it be located?

 

[pdxfan]

It's hard to believe the vertical expansion of the library would impede anyone's view. This must be left over from the furor of the 70s over the first interstate tower and others - "No highrise in Portland!". It should be re-examined. The cost precludes a new building. We desperately need a larger library.

 

[BroadwayVik]

Maybe the library issue is what is keeping PSU from being a Tier 3 university. Maybe the library size itself makes us appear to be not be fully engaged as an institute of higher learning, nothing more than a Tier 4 National University.

PSU spelled backwards is US, P(ortland). Better image for PSU, better image for Portland.

 

[VikThunder1]

It's hard to believe the vertical expansion of the library would impede anyone's view. This must be left over from the furor of the 70s over the first interstate tower and others - "No highrise in Portland!". It should be re-examined. The cost precludes a new building. We desperately need a larger library.

I believe the height limitations were removed.

 

[BroadwayVik]

I would prefer to see us grow the Millar library building taller too---by about four floors. Really, a second library building would make things more troublesome.

I think the architectural effect could be very aesthetically appealling. Everyone would be able to see the unique features of the original building with those of the newer addition on the front, and then finally that of the new, say, four-floor construction atop and straddling both of the earler construction phases together, in a sense finishing off the building, tying the whole edifice together. This phasic archtecture design then reveals the building's phasic architectural history spanning seven decades, the top four-floor addition tying it all together into a harmonious gestalt.