Libraries Designed for Users: A Planning Handbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Lushington, Nolan

Mills, Willis N.

Social Sciences

Library Professional Pubns

Supercedes Lushington's now classic Libraries designed for users (1980) by looking at planning a library in the context of new technology, new expectations of libraries, and new ways of evaluating the finished product. Describes initial design, emphasizing flexibility and the library's many roles; and also explains how to modify libraries in use to bring them into line with the design goals. Written for library administrators rather than for architects. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Design and Evaluation of Public Library Buildings

Arts & Photography

Kusack, James M.

Architecture

The key ingredients for using a library effectively are outlined in this easy-to-use guide. Middle and high school students are provided with the basics on how a library is organized, how to find materials, and how to perform research to complete their homework assignments. Common core library reference sources are annotated to aid the user in finding the most useful resource, and a keyword index helps students connect homework and term paper subjects with the reference works most likely to supply the needed information. Librarians will find that his volume not only aids their student users in achieving more productive research results, but it is also a useful tool for developing their collections to fulfill their students' needs. Information on using the Internet and other electronic sources is also provided.

How to Use the Library: A Reference and Assignment Guide for Students (Contributions in Librarianship & Information Science)

Children's Books

Ferro, Frank

Education & Reference

Greenwood

Libraries designed for users: A planning handbook

Gaylord Professional Publications

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Entwurfsatlas Bibliotheken (German Edition)

Birkhauser

A handbook on the design and the planning of libraries - a particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant changes in recent years. Comprehensive contributions by experts from architecture and library science analyze specific aspects of the building type a typology of some 40 exemplary international projects provides inspiration and a range of options.

Wong, Liliane

Rudorf, Wolfgang

Written by three of the greatest minds when it comes to library design and architecture, Libraries - A Design Manual digs into the history of libraries and their design within communities. The library is a service institution. A collection made accessible to a particular community, the library is defined by its contents and the society it serves. The development of the library is inextricably linked with the evolution of these two elements. 
 As the concepts of the collection and its accessibility shift through time with cycles of seminal discoveries and the changes brought about by such inventions, they redefine the library s role in society. In the handbook Libraries - A Design Manual by experts Nolan Lushington, Lilian Wong, and Wolfgang Rudorf readers are presented with the various conversations and intricacies when it comes to designing a library. 
 Containing international case studies from the late 1990s to the present, Libraries - A Design Manual is a handbook on the design and the planning of libraries a particularly prestigious design task that underwent significant changes since the introduction of digital technology in the late 1990s. Comprehensive contributions by experts from architecture and library science - Nolan Lushington, Lilian Wong, and Wolfgang Rudorf each analyze specific aspects of the building type. A typology of some 40 exemplary international projects provides inspiration and a range of options. 
 Studying the evolution of the role of libraries within society, from a private resource to living room of the city, Libraries - A Design Manual brings to the forefront the multiplicity of roles of the modern-day library and its intertwining design.

Libraries - A Design Manual

Libraries: A Design Manual

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