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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>

During planning in 1968, Pereira was approached to design an annex which would house the Samuel I. Barchas Science Library, a collection of rare historic science books that was planned to be donated to UCSD. The proposed building would have been a two-story structure seated to the front right of the main library, with its upper floor being a half-scale version of the tower's center floor. The proposed building was cancelledrejected for being too small, and the Barchas collection now resides at Stanford University.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://exhibits.ucsd.edu/starlight/shaping_a_library/feature/planning |title = Planning - Shaping a Library |access-date = 2025-05-11 |author = UCSD Libraries}}</ref>

[[File:DrSeussStatue.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Bronze statue of Dr. Seuss and his character The Cat in the Hat outside the library|Bronze statue of Dr. Seuss and his character The Cat in the Hat]]