Norlin Library Architectural Record
Scott Seaman, University Libraries
University of Colorado, Boulder
August 2002
Thanks for coming.  This talk originated from all the work that has been happening during the Norlin renovation planning. That project is just beginning, but some of the first steps have involved basic assessments of our building’s mechanical systems and the uses to which we’re putting all these different spaces.  And it’s from that second part—what are we doing with the space we have—that this came.  As I took various architects through the building, we’d often wonder what the original designers were thinking when they made this decision or that decision.  And so finally I just got too curious and went into Archives and talked to staff in Physical Facilities and got lots of photos from our Public Information office.  Through that, I’ve come up with this brief architectural history of Norlin Library.