Here is a list of space planners compiled 10/09 from VTLIBRARIES listserv recommendations by Amy Howlett, VT Department of Libraries
Librarians
Cheryl Bryan
157 South Orleans Rd
Orleans, MA 02653
cheryl@cherylbryan.com
Phone: 508-255-1229
http://www.cherylbryan.com/
Wrote “Managing Facilities for Results: Optimizing Space for Services”
Ruth O’Donnell library space planning consultant, worked with Cheryl Bryan on “Managing Facilities for Results”
Based in Florida; has visited VT to advise libraries
ruth.odonnell@comcast.net
Richard (Dick) Waters
Teaches the Simmons College workshop “How Much Space Do You Really Need, and How Much Will It Cost?”
Information from http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/people/faculty/ce/1221.php
rlwaters37@gmail.com
Rickie Emerson
Former directory of the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston.
rickie-emerson@hotmail.com
Hilari Farrington
Former director of both the Kellogg-Hubbard Library and the Stowe Free Library, both of which went through a major expansion during her tenure. Will provide a range of services to Vermont libraries at a reasonable cost.
70 Markham Rd., East Montpelier, VT 05651
hilari@librariesthatwork.com
Phone: 802-223-4039
http://www.librariesthatwork.com
Architects and Planners
Black River Design Architects PLC Montpelier
Jay Ancel presented on Green Options for Public Libraries at the Vermont Library Trustee Association 10/17/09
http://www.blackriverdesign.com/libraries/
Black River Design Architects, PLC
73 Main Street, Room # 9
Montpelier, Vermont 05602-2944
(802) 223-2044
meganr@blackriverdesign.com
Robie Stoner, Northern Architects in Burlington
http://www.northernarchitects.com/LibraryProjects.html
Northern Architects, Inc.
207 King St Suite 3 , Burlington
VT , US , 05401-4502
(802)658-1953
Gossens Bachman Architects
designed Johnson State College library in mid-90s
85 Granite Shed Lane
Montpelier, Vermont, 05602
Telephone (802) 229-1664
contact@GBArchitecture.com
http://www.gbarchitecture.com
Carol C. Wheelock
PO Box 1005
Waitsfield, VT 05673
802-496-2306 (voice)
cwheelock@fengshuivermont.com
Library Feng Shui
“very good at looking at our preliminary design [for new library] and improving it tremendously”
Nolan Lushington
“Libraries Designed for Users”
11 Asylum St
Hartford, CT 06103-2209
(860)293-1450
nlushington@snet.net
http://www.lushingtonassociates.com
Library Building Consultants and Architects
http://www.olis.state.ri.us/grants/construction/resources/consultants.php
Online list maintained by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS)