IIT - Inventing the Future

I am a huge fan of libraries. When I’m on the road for work visiting high schools and community colleges, I often seek out local libraries for short periods of rejuvenation and rest. It’s amazing how the clientele of these institutions changes from place to place, and how each even a building’s decorations represent its community. Perhaps my favorite aspect of different libraries is how each makes efforts to celebrate the work of its local writers, whether novels, poems, or the recent publications of university professors.

Of course, often when I'm on campus I seek out IIT's own libraries. I have posted pictures of the College of Architecture’s Graham Resource Center in the gallery before, but not so many of the main campus library, the Paul V. Galvin Library. Only a stone’s throw from my office, its periodicals section – and, heck, even the books I can’t finish in a lunch period – provides a nice midday work break.

Wherever you go to school, I’m sure you will utilize your university library system, for researching if not for studying. If you are attending IIT in the fall, or are thinking about applying to IIT for next year, I recommend you peruse the shots in the gallery to the right to learn a little more about what kinds of resources will be readily available to you.

Among what you cannot see here are extensive digital collections. For full details on IIT’s libraries’ holdings, please visit the Galvin Library online.