1. ©Scott Bennett, 2005. Readers of this essay and librarians may copy it without the copyright owner's permission, if the author and publisher are acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes. A version of this paper was first delivered at the 2005 Roundtable sponsored by the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and the Council on Library and Information Resources.
2. Libraries Designed for Learning;Bennett,2003
3. As does Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are,1963
4. “The Power of Place in Learning”;O'Connor;Planning for Higher Education,2005
5. The Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington, Seattle, is another magnificent library designed in the idiom of a church. The most common alternative design idiom in the United States is that of the secular palace of the mind, exemplified by such grand buildings as the New York Public Library and the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.