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HEROLD MAHONEY LIBRARY, SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE

Petaluma Campus | Petaluma, CA | Complete

As part of the Phase II campus expansion, the Herold Mahoney Library becomes the cultural and architectural heart of Santa Rosa Junior College’s Petaluma site. The 37,000 square foot library is the centerpiece building on a new eastern quadrangle. Facing the quad is the Community Reading Room, a multipurpose facility connected to the main reading room by a gallery walk. The Community Reading Room provides a venue for expanded cultural and civic events that have been the hallmark of the existing library.

Tall glass curtain walls open to the east to capture the view across a new campus green to Sonoma Mountain. The Library has 400 reader seats including more than 50 public access computers and 24 Media Viewing stations. The new library provides four times the library space of the previous Mahoney Library, adding eight new group studies, a library instruction classroom, and a full scope Media Services department.