Some staff in the Sterling Memorial and Cross Campus Libraries may have seen me with our Phase 2 Facilities Project Manager, Laura Cruickshank, this afternoon escorting three distinguished gentlemen reading floor plans in various spots in the buildings. I am very pleased to let you know that these were Thomas H. Beeby, Gary M. Ainge, and J. Lawton Thies who were here for an orientation to spaces and some of the people they will be working with over the coming months. The University has just retained the services of their architectural firm, Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge, Inc., to undertake the design and implementation of the renovation of the CCL and selected portions of SML, our project known as "Phase 2A."

Just in case anyone missed Alice's announcement made a few weeks ago through the LMC, let me repeat a few details about this Chicago-based firm. The Principal Architect on the project is Thomas H. Beeby, FAIA (Fellow of the American Institute of Architects). The firm has won numerous awards and has extensive experience building libraries, including the Hale Library at Kansas State University and the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago. Mr. Beeby is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and was its Dean from 1985 to 1991. He continues to teach at Yale as an Adjunct Professor, and his firm has been involved in several other projects here at Yale University.