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The lighting needs in libraries vary widely with the specific area of the library. Book stacks need good vertical light levels while study desks need good horizontal light. Lighting can give reading rooms, common areas and children's sections a spacious, welcoming feel and it can also bring focus to the circulation or reference desk.

Litecontrol offers lighting solutions for each area of the library. Our Staklite fixture was specifically designed for lighting book stacks and our unique pendant families, such as Inde-Pendants, can create a visual focal point at the circulation desk. Pendant mounted indirect, direct and indirect/direct luminaires provide good task lighting onto reading areas while lighting architectural spaces as well.

John Spoor Broome Library

John Spoor Broome Library

The John Spoor Broome Library is located on the California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) campus in Camarillo, California. The library formally opened on April 4, 2008 and was named a winner in the California Construction magazine Best of 2008 awards program. The Library won the Award of Merit in the Outstanding Architectural Design category. An independent jury of industry experts in design and construction judged more than 140 nominated projects in a variety of categories

Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University

Completed in 2005, the award-winning Africana Studies and Research Center measures 11,600 square feet with two pavilions, totaling 6,000 square feet.

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This is your Brain on Lighting

May 5, 2011 by Dr. Robert Davis

Stimulus – Response. Lighting practitioners work hard at getting the stimulus right to attain a desired response. But what about those responses to lighting that go beyond considerations of task performance? full post

LEDs versus Fluorescent both have their place

May 20, 2011 by Jeremy Yon

We've been seeing a rising tide of push-back on LEDs, and Elizabeth Donoff's commentary, It's What You Say and How You Say It, in the April-May 2011 issue of Architectural Lighting has done a great job of explaining why. full post

Broome Library at CSUCI Inspiring

August 23, 2011 by Stephanie Seal

The John Spoor Broome Library on the California State University, Channel Islands campus in Camarillo, California is one of my favorite Litecontrol projects. full post

Lighting and wayfinding

August 25, 2011 by Dr. Robert Davis

Lighting of key vertical surfaces can be an effective tool for helping people to navigate through public spaces. This post and our new video clip explain how. full post