Clemson’s Cooper Library: From Quiet Book Repository to Social Hub
SCUP–47 is higher education’s premier planning conference in 2012. Chicago, July 7–11.
A Library Journal article about the SCUP–47 concurrent session, “‘Road Map’ For Making the Most Rather Than Making Do.” When it opened over 40 years ago, Clemson University’s Robert Muldrow Cooper Library was a state of the art facility and architectural focal point of the South Carolina campus. The 184,839 square foot, six-story library retains its architectural prominence, but it has gone from a quiet study and book repository to the campus meeting place and social hub. The library’s vision and mission reflects an engaged and vibrant service mindset in a forward-thinking university.