1. Does your library inspire its patrons?
A good library is a place, a palace,
where the lofty spirits of
all nations and generations meet.”
Cleveland State University
College of Law Library
a c at al o g of to day’s l i b rar y envi ro n m ent s
2. “A library, to modify the famous
metaphor of Socrates, should be the
delivery room for the birth of ideas–
a place where history comes to life.”
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger,
American Historian
Libraries as Gathering Places
As the Information Age
pushes onward, forever chang-
ing the landscapes of our librar-
ies, one thing remains constant.
Regardless of the vessels that
information and knowledge come
to us, they are still collected and
shared under the roof of the
library building.
A library’s roof is an umbrella
under which all of a society’s past
collective knowledge resides. It
Night and day, the Cleveland State
serves as a place to explore the
College of Law Library invites stu-
world ahead of us, behind us
dents to explore.
and the all the possibilities in
between.
Throughout time, the library inspire its patrons by providing
has stood as a symbol of our a balance of individual privacy
faith in knowlede and its ability for self discovery with the pub-
to sustain, cultivate and advance lic sharing of knowledge that
our society and culture. In short, arouses interaction and the
a well designed library should exchange of ideas.
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