Despite the rapid changes brought about by our increasingly virtual research and scholarship environment, the library as place still matters. On the Homewood campus, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library serves as the primary locus for pursuits both scholarly and social; physical space—whether for quiet reading or group study—is already at a premium and getting harder to come by. 

To remedy this problem and to provide a place that truly reflects the way tomorrow’s students and faculty will work and learn, we are building a new facility next to the Eisenhower Library. The Brody Learning Commons, funded with $30 million in gifts and grants, will be a light-filled, five-story hub of collaborative learning, with flexible group and individual study areas, interactive media rooms, a large reading room, and attractive space for the unique materials in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. It will also be the first new building project on the Homewood campus to pursue LEED certification and to have spaces designed specifically for the display of paintings and sculptures by leading artists.

“The space will enable us to offer even greater contributions to the university’s core missions of research and teaching,” says Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. “This will be the kind of library our faculty and students want and deserve.”

To keep up to date on the latest construction news and images, see the Brody Learning Commons site.