This book demonstrates how aesthetics, design elements, and visual literacy can be implemented in the library to enhance spaces, programs, services, instruction, and outreach so that your library will
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library’s early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution’s first six decades, fro
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.You might think that its name says it all. A bookshelf is just that - a shelf for books. It's
This work revisits the ideas of Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto, written in 1992 by Michael Buckland, and presents the visions of emerging practitioners and scholars for libraries of the nea
The Green Library Planner is designed for library building design teams who are not actively engaged in architecture or engineering, but need an introduction to green building. With this book, the lib
Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935, yet Andrew Carnegiea€?s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated thes
With drawings of typical furniture and equipment, along with diagrams required for their use, this expanded and revised edition of Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space helps planners
At the 2009 World Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), in Milan, Italy, the section on library buildings and equipment and the section on librari
Barclay and Scott (U. of California, Merced Libraries) provide a guide for librarians, administrators, board members, and students to library renovation, maintenance, and construction. They overview t
A librarian and a civil engineer team up to provide library managers with background on construction, building maintenance, and energy use in existing library buildings. The book is written to be acce
Woodward, a former librarian and now a consultant to libraries and nonprofits, details steps for managing library construction and renovations. The book gives an overview of the planning and construct
Mulford, a library design consultant with experience in strategic and master planning and programming and the design of large and small public and private projects, and Himmel, a retired library direc
Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre
Teenagers have strong preferences, not all of which are driven by purely commercial culture. They need a variety of activities and subjects, spaces where they can get together, and others where they c
For librarians, architects, and others, Dewe (information studies, U. of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK) highlights the policies, processes, and design issues and problems involved in successful library refur
Bryan (Southeastern Massachusetts Library System) offers advice on creating new service areas within existing library space, in this workbook for library directors, staff, and boards. The workbook out
"This book provides a plethora of information from the planning stages through the finished media center--to allow any librarian or architect to make informed, cost-effective decisions. Tish Murphy's
Dewe (information studies, U. of Wales, Aberystwyth) offers a guide for librarians and architects undertaking a public library building project for the first time. The text reviews the concepts, issue
Despite calls for electronic, virtual, digital libraries without walls, the walled variety are still being built, some of them massive. This book explores the reasons for this contradiction by examini
Housing the world's collective knowledge, within which reside the milestones of human intellectual achievement, libraries are perhaps the richest of all cultural institutions. Often architectural tre
