When planning for the new Library began--and even after this planning was well underway--it was anticipated that the Electronic Campus Project would be completed before the new Library was ready. Many decisions about the Library building were made using this assumption, and one of them was to exclude space for housing AV equipment and operating an equipment delivery service. In all likelihood, even if the College had anticipated the delay in completing the Electronic Campus Project, it is improbable that the new Library would have been designed to support what has become a space-intensive and outdated approach to meeting the College's audiovisual equipment needs, that is, the centralized housing and delivery of audiovisual equipment, chiefly monitors and VCRs whose costs have steeply declined. For these reasons, in October 2000 the Library recommended to the College that, once we occupy the new building, departments and other College units be equipped to meet their own audiovisual needs by supplying them with equipment or enabling them to share equipment using building-centered equipment closets.