Steve coulter still sounds dazed and amazed. "We weren't prepared for the onslaught," he says. "We weren't prepared for World War III." As president of the San Francisco Public Library Commission, Coulter helped plan the city's newest crown jewel: a public library boldly de- signed and outfitted for the 21st century. Within a few months of its opening last April, the library had tripled the number of users and attracted national attention for its architecture, its technology and its community-based approach to funding.
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