Philip D. Leighton

Philip D. Leighton has been architectural planner emeritus, Stanford University Libraries, since late 1993; prior to that he was the library building project manager for most of twenty-four years. During his career at Stanford and as a consultant since Stanford, he has worked on approximately seventy-five libraries and archives ranging from huge libraries such as the National Taiwan Library and the Bibliothèque de France to very tiny libraries such as the library of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Between these are numerous college and university libraries, a state archive, and the United Nations Archives. His articles on library facilities have appeared in College & Research Libraries and other journals.