Collections to Connections: Changing Spaces and New Challenges in Academic Library Buildings

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Title: Collections to Connections: Changing Spaces and New Challenges in Academic Library Buildings
Author(s): Latimer, Karen
Issue Date: 2011
Keyword(s): Library design
Abstract: The article looks at changes in information provision and their significant impact on the development of the design of academic library spaces over the years. The history of the academic library as a building type is examined, and the move from the collection-dominated library buildings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the service-rich, user-focused ones of the twenty-first century is explored. Recent trends are identified, drawing on a number of mainly UK and other European examples. The effect of increasing availability of e-resources, new technology, and changing methods of teaching, learning, and research on design is also considered. Other issues covered in the paper include the importance of the design brief or program, interior space, fittings and fixtures, and finally the need to reflect on the success or failure of building projects through postoccupancy evaluation.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN: 0024-2594
Type of Resource: text
Language: en
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31864
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2011.0035
Copyright and License Information: Copyright 2011 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Library Trends 60 (1) Summer 2011: Library Design: From Past to Present. Edited by Alistair Black and Nan Dahlkild