Donald A. Barclay After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley School of Library and Information Science in 1990, I began my library career at New Mexico State University. I later worked at the libraries of the University of Houston and Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center before taking a position at the nascent University of California, Merced, where I am now the Deputy University Librarian. When I began work at UC Merced in 2002, there were no students, faculty, or buildings. Helping to raise a university, a campus, a library, and a library building from a cow pasture was a once-in-lifetime experience and still remains the most satisfying adventure of my professional life.
The Library Building Renovation, Maintenance, and Construction Handbook is my fifth book for Neal-Schuman Publishers, a great group of professionals with whom it is always a pleasure to work.



