This case study seeks to explore the vision, plan, leadership, process, and creation of a new downtown Main Library in Nashville.

 

“A city with a great library is a great city.”

-John Denson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In his 1995 State of Metro address, Nashville Mayor Philip N. Bredesen stated,

“Our city needs a new main library, and I’m going to undertake seeing that that happens”.

Six years later in 2001, the Main Library opened in downtown Nashville.

 

Here begins the story of Nashville's Main Library