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===Expansion===

Within a few years of the library’s opening in 1971, it was considered too small. Student enrollment had more than doubled, library staff numbers had increased, and the collections had grown so quickly that more than 300,000 volumes had to be stored off-site.

It was envisioned that future additions to the original building would form terraced levels around the tower base descending into the canyon, with the first of these planned for completion in 1976. The expansion project was ultimately funded in 1990, at which point the original plan had been discarded in favor of a subterranean addition onto the front of the library, designed by architect Gunnar Birkerts. In keeping with the original master plan, the addition was "deliberately designed to be subordinated to the strong, geometrical form of the existing library".<ref name="test">[http://libraries.ucsd.edu/about/us/geisel-building.html Link text] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200755/https://libraries.ucsd.edu/about/us/geisel-building.html |date=2014-01-02 }}, additional text.</ref>