Four of Shepley Bulfinch’s academic library clients topped the rankings for “Best College Library” in the 2010 Princeton Review survey of students at 373 top US colleges and universities. The four current or recent clients are Harvard (#1); Duke (#2); Princeton (#3), and Colgate (#4). In addition, Furman University, where the firm completed the 2004 LEED Gold Duke Library addition and renovation, was ranked #12.
Rankings were determined by responses from over 122,000 students to the survey question “How do you rate your school’s library facilities?”.
Colgate also came in at #3 in the Review’s ranking for “Most Beautiful Campus.” The university’s Case Library project, which was completed in late 2007, has propelled Colgate up in the Review’s rankings over the past several years. Case opened a month after a second Shepley project on the campus: the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center.
In addition to the recognition Shepley’s libraries have received from students in the Princeton Review rankings, they have also won more informal acclaim from students at Duke in a pair of YouTube videos (serious and not).
Shepley has completed more than 70 academic libraries in the US, the UK, and Ireland, including the new McClay Library at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and the renovation of the Woodruff Library for the Atlanta University Center. A new library for Salem State University in Massachusetts is scheduled for completion late in 2012.
