Koerner Library

As someone who has worked with books most of her professional life, I appreciate a well-designed library. This is the Koerner Library at the University of British Columbia, designed by Arthur Erickson and completed in 1997. It is named after Walter C. Koerner, a forestry businessman and philanthropist long associated with the university.

Koerner Library is the largest of the 15 libraries at UBC’s Point Grey campus and home to the humanities and social sciences collections. What’s kind of neat, I think, is that it was built on top of the former Sedgewick Library, which was below ground level and used skylights to bring natural light into the stacks. That building is now the basement of the Koerner Library.