Diverse "publicly available" use

Gina, it really depends on the specific LEED reviewer's interpretation. If you have another use available to you, you may want to use it instead to document compliance with greater certainty (presumably you're documenting Surrounding Density & Diverse Uses?). If you need this to count, I would make the argument that the public is allowed to enter and can peruse materials for personal use during business hours without the need of an affiliation. I know that I do this with the Harvard Library often, which is right around the corner from my office, when they have on hand a reference material we need access to and do not have ourselves. To my knowledge, there is no distinction between public and private universities in the eyes of LEED, and in the past, I have gotten away with this on private university LEED documentation - although I used public libraries and gyms, rather than university amenities for my purposes.