Floorplans of renovation:

Facts & Features

• Cogdell & Mendrala, Savannah, principal architects
  
• Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, New York, associate architects
  
• Seating for 1,000 students
  
• 92,308 square-foot addition and renovation will triple the size of the library at a cost of approximately $19.5 million
  
• Three computer labs
  
• A graphics lab
  
• Two electronic classrooms
  
• Thirty-three group study rooms
  
• Internet Café
  
• 24 hour spaces
  
• Museum with three galleries, including greatly expanded Flannery O'Connor Room
  
• Space for 450,000 volumes
  
• The largest academic or public library in middle Georgia
  
• Groundbreaking Ceremony was held October 5, 2001
  
• Phase I completed in 2004
  
• Phase II (renovation) completed Fall 2005.