Berkeley Public Library

Smith, Fause & McDonald, Inc.

SFMI Projects for BPL Include:

Berkeley Central Library RevovationRenovation and expansion of historic 50,000 square foot urban library facility to 100,000 square foot library and library adminstration facility. SFMI scope of services included:

  • the design of building wide voice data structured cabling systems including four IDF's, Server Room/MDF and MPOE with fiber and copper backbone facilites.
  • new networked PBX systems transparently linking the main library to the four branches and the rest of the City of Berkeley through the City of Berkeley PBX Systems.
  • Audio-visual systems design for the Historic Reading Room, Public Meeting Room and Classroom
  • Assistance in the selection of a Thin Client computer terminal for the On-Line Public Access Catalog System, Service Desks, Public Internet and E-mail stations. Specification of data systems hardware
  • Building wide public address systems

Temporary Central Library and Temporary Central Administration Temporary facilities occupied by the Library during renovation of the Central Library.

  • the design of building wide voice data structured cabling systems including MPOE and Server Room/MDF with fiber and copper backbone facilites.
  • Building wide public address systems
  • Interim main and branch library routers, Ethernet hubs and Terminal Servers.
  • Interim DSL Internet facilities, E-mail systems review and firewall.

North Branch, South Branch, University Branch, Claremont Branch.

  • Two phase expansion of data cabling systems at existing branches to accomodate additional workstations and implement a Gates Foundation Library Systems grant.
  • Branch telephone systems and data networks as part of the larger Main Library design work.

Client: Berkeley Public Library

Architect: Ripley/BOORA

 

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