Each also was designed for expanded services and the use of new technology. Each center also has model classrooms for bibliographic instruction, computer labs for students, and multimedia production areas for faculty. Faculty and staff were closely involved in planning the buildings. At Cascade, the library is more traditional and has a sense of Monticello with its rotunda entry, pillars and cherry casements. At Sylvania, nature surrounds and flows through the windows with views of fir groves, the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range.
Art enlivens the atmosphere of the buildings as well.
The college set aside one percent of the projects' funds for art, and again campus committees selected items. At Cascade, the faculty commissioned three local artists to create a mobile that plays visually with language and ideas. The Sylvania committee chose a variety of Northwest art in a juried process and framed prints donated by the Leach family of Seattle. The libraries are popular with students and staff. Circulation at Cascade has more than doubled in just a year, and the monthly gate count at Sylvania is about 40,000.