As I got ready to tour the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, last spring, as part of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) meeting held nearby, the buzz about the newly unveiled building had reached such a level that I expected to find it, however cool, overhyped. It wasn't. It was exactly the right amount of hyped. "Every corner of the Hunt Library is designed to be memorable and stunning," the library's vision claims. Grandiose as that might sound, those corners deliver. In an era in which many libraries even at great institutions are struggling to do enough with less, it's refreshing to see a university able and willing to invest in the library as both the symbolic and the operational core of the institution. The project was funded by $115.2 million in state appropriations, plus donor support.
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机译：去年春天，我准备参观罗利市北卡罗来纳州立大学（NCSU）的James B. Hunt Jr.图书馆时，作为附近举行的研究图书馆协会（ARL）会议的一部分，关于这座新揭幕的大楼的嗡嗡声达到了我期望找到的水平，无论它多么酷，夸张。不是。这确实是正确的炒作。该图书馆的愿景宣称：“亨特图书馆的每个角落都设计得令人难忘且令人惊叹。”听起来可能很宏伟，但这些角落确实可以实现。在这个时代，即使是一流机构中的许多图书馆都在努力用更少的钱做足够的事，令人耳目一新的是，一所大学能够并且愿意在图书馆中投资，既是机构的象征性又是运营的核心。该项目的资金来自州拨款1.152亿美元，加上捐助者的支持。
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