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On March 15, President Bush signed HR 2742 into law, officially putting the five‐year reauthorization of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) into place. The House of Representatives had approved the Conference report (H.Rept. 101–407) by a vote of 401–4 on February 27. The Senate approved it by voice vote on March 1.

It has been suggested that “space and artifacts constitute systems of communication which organizations build up within themselves” (Gagliardi, 1992a, b, p. vi) and reflect the cultural life within that organization. This is a study of how the “landscape” of a public library (“Library X”), as an information retrieval system, relates to the values of the people who created it. The efforts here are geared towards understanding the physical instantiation of institutional culture and, more specifically, institutional values as they are reflected through the artifact.

Melissa Cox Norris is the Director of Library Communications at the University of Cincinnati. She is a founding member of the OhioLINK Marketing Task Force. Prior to joining the University of Cincinnati in 2002, she worked for three years at the University of Virginia Library as the Director of Communications and Publications.