To the Editor:

Re: “Rippling Beyond Sibley,” Editorial, March 12.

Dean Kleinman,

As a former employee of Cornell University and as the former Assistant Director of the Knight Visual Resources Facility, I am writing to you to express my deep concerns over the recent decision by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning to shut down the Knight Visual Resources Facility.

For a college that has seen much activism in recent months in response to a lack of administrative transparency, we are appalled that such a drastic step was taken by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning by closing the Knight Visual Resources Facility.

The KVRF — which will be closing in June — served the needs of many students and faculty within AAP where the facility was housed. Garnering national prestige, the resource was one of Cornell’s most notable collections of images and visual materials.