Standing at the north end of the Quad, the LSU Library is impossible to miss. In fact, it was designed to be that way when built nearly 30 years after the completion of the original campus.
Now big changes are coming — changes that will lead to the demolition of the library building and restoration of the Quad to its original cruciform shape.
“The building that I’m sitting in right now, it cannot be preserved long term,” Stanley Wilder, dean of libraries, said, “because it’s crumbling in ways that can’t be fixed.”…