Mississippi University for Women
Contact Stan Wagnon, Burris/Wagnon Architects, P.A., 835 N President St., Jackson, MS 39202
T: 601.969.7543, stan@burriswagnon.com

This is the oldest women’s university in the US with a large collection of law books and backfile journals.  In preparing a detailed building program for the renovation and expansion of the Fant Memorial Library, Dick (working as a PROVIDENCE Associates LLC independent contractor) introduced the ASRS (automated storage & retrieval system) concept that reduced the overall size of the project by about 8,000 square feet and also reduced the estimated construction cost by $500,000.  The building should open in 2010.


Tennessee State Library & Archives
Contact: Jeanne Sugg, state librarian, 403 7th Avenue N, Nashville, TN 10701
T: 615.741.7996, jeanne.sugg@state.tn.us

Dick Waters reviewed and significantly revised the original building program that was far too expensive to build (too many square feet).  A new program was drafted, carefully reviewed up and down the organization, and an ASRS system was proposed for the storage of archives, bound journals, and older monographs as well as for the extensive collection of materials for the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.  The building is now in the design development phase.  Dick has completed his review of the Schematic Design.  The new state library facility should open in 2011.

Baylor University Libraries
Contact:  Ron Shaw, president, F&S Partners, Inc., 8350 N Central Expy, 5th Floor, Dallas, TX 75206.1600
T: 214.559.4851.

Dick Waters was engaged by F&S Partners, Inc., a Dallas architectural firm, to review the space needs assessment prepared by the library staff, and to program a 50,000 square foot addition to the Moody Memorial Library, the central facility of the campus.  The facility houses the science and engineering collections, plus general reference and interlibrary loan.  The science/engineering collection will be housed on compact book stacks.  The project was completed with an estimated cost of $5.5 million.

Chapman University
Contact: Kris Olsen, Director of Construction Management
One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866
T: 714.628.7303

ABACUS Project Management Inc. engaged Dick Waters, upon the recommendation of the University, to review the various architectural design phases for the new Leatherby Libraries.  Part of the review process was to compare the building's capacities with ACRL Standards.  The building's opening is academic year 2004-05.  AC Martin Partners, Inc. is the design architect.

Loyola Marymount University
Contact: Debra Shade, Ass't. Univ. Librarian for Business and Administrative Services
Hannon Library, One LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045.8203
T: 310.338.4458

Dick Waters was part of a large team that developed a campus master plan and a building program for a new 87,000 SF library facility for this west Los Angeles university.

Nevada State Library & Archives
Contact: Daphne DeLeon, administrator, 100 Stewart St., Carson City, NV 89701.4285
T: 775.684.3315, dodeleone@clan.lib.nv.us

We wrote a building program and reviewed schematic designs.

Tusculum College Tate Library
Contact:  Mark Stokes, Director of Development, Highway 107, Greenville, TN 37743
T: 423.636.7320

Dick Waters prepared an assessment report, making recommendations regarding collections, staffing, technology, and services.  Following acceptance of the report by the College Board of Trustees, a building program was prepared for the renovation and expansion of the building, a project that will increase the size of the present facility by 150 percent.

Other academic and state library projects include the following:

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Brookhaven College/Dallas Community College District, Dallas, TX
California State University Library System, Long Beach, CA
University of Colorado @ Boulder
Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, TX
Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
East Central University, Ada, OK
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, FL
Hillsborough Community College, Plant, FL
Incarnate Word University, San Antonio, TX
University of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Lemoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta
Nova Southeastern University Libraries, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Our Lady of the Lake University Libraries, San Antonio, TX
Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA
Shasta College Library, Redding, CA
Shelby State Community College, Memphis, TN
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Tupper Center - Smithsonian Tropical Research Center Library, Panama City, Panama
Southern Methodist University Business Information Center, Dallas, TX
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
University of West Florida Library, Pensacola, FL