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How we talk about what we do is just as important as what we do, and in communicating the value of libraries to our society what our profession needs is confidence, determination, and the will to succeed. In this inspiring and pragmatic new book, Aldrich shows that the first step towards a sustainable library is sustainable thinking: a determined yet realistic attitude that will help your library spot opportunities for institutional advancement, advocate for and safeguard operating funds, and generate intense loyalty from the communities you serve. Nothing less than a compass to help chart the course of your library’s future, this book begins with a situation report that examines the myria...
Developing a Library Accessibility Plan: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides library professionals with the knowledge, tools and templates, and practical examples necessary for developing a tailored and comprehensive accessibility plan for their institution. Part One provides foundational knowledge about disability experiences in libraries, including an overview of existing legislation and a breakdown of the disability community in the United States. This part also names and defines the impact of different accessibility barriers within online, physical, and instructional settings for different populations. Part Two outlines the initial stages of a developing a comprehensive plan for re...
Library design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a complex process involving many stakeholders and participants. Libraries of all types work with an almost limitless range of constituent groups for input, buy-in and successful implementation. Securing support for new library buildings and renovations of libraries engages many people: library clients, community members, faculty, funding agencies, donors, governing authorities, librarians, architects, interior designers and planners. Telling the right story and getting to the end game demand carefully crafted approaches, wide-ranging skills, a unified vision and...
This book provides practical information and insights to library administrators and building plan team members at academic and public libraries who are considering or starting a library expansion or reconfiguration of existing space. Building a new library or expanding or renovating an existing building brings up a host of questions and concerns, not the least of which involves the future of the library. This book addresses those issues in light of an overarching positive vision of libraries and their evolving purposes and roles in the 21st century. This guide identifies and addresses all of the steps in the building process, including preparing the request for proposal (RFP), selecting the ...
Few librarians build more than one library in their careers and renovating or building a whole new library is a very expensive investment. Thus, new or refurbished structures need to be fresh and up to date. While some librarians have the means to visit exemplary buildings as they develop their own library’s master plan, most library leaders and stakeholders won’t actually see the full range of potential projects. Hence, this unique book is both a resource and a brainstorm prompt. It helps library leaders and key stakeholders surface the ideal programmatic aspects that drive exciting design, and offer recent design solutions that have been effectively implemented. Better Library Design: ...
L’iniziativa di offrire una Festschrift a fr. Silvano M. Danieli per il suo settantesimo compleanno rende omaggio a un uomo, a un professionista che con la sua attività ha lasciato un segno profondo nelle relazioni umane e nel mondo delle biblioteche. Fr. Silvano, bibliotecario della Pontificia Facoltà teologica “Marianum” e dal 2014 priore della comunità di Studio Marianum di Roma, ha, infatti, svolto un ruolo strategico nello sviluppo di URBE, l’associazione che riunisce le biblioteche dei pontifici atenei romani in un’unica rete di servizi. Il qualificato elenco dei partecipanti, italiani ed europei, testimonia l’ampiezza dei gradimenti ottenuti nei suoi trent’anni d’attività bibliotecaria e di curatore della Bibliografia dell’Ordine dei Servi e della Bibliografia mariana. Le parole di Aelredo di Rievaulx (1109-1167), la figura di maggior spicco del monachesimo cistercense anglosassone, esprimono il senso del dono: «Un uomo, in virtù dell’amicizia che ha verso un altro uomo, diventa amico di Dio, secondo quanto dice il Signore nel Vangelo: Non vi chiamo più servi, ma amici miei» (De spirituali amicitia, II, 14).
This publication brings together a range of building projects from National, Academic and Public Libraries from different countries of the world showing how these libraries are able to continue to provide high quality library space that is affordable in times of difficult economic circumstances. We will hear about the building processes, co-operation with architects and engineers and how librarians and users have reacted to these new buildings.
《臺灣博物》季刊第159期 專題主題:何以為鑑,何以為師 新一代的學習者,被期待具備跨領域的知識整合與應用能力,始能適應變化迅速、資訊爆炸及互動繁複的全球社會。當學習者成為學習主體,處處都可以是學習場域;在注重個體差異的趨勢下,傳統學習及評測方式也面臨新挑戰,教育推廣者無不探索著如何有效達成多元學習、提升素養導向的學習成效與成就,同時評量、評估亦能導引出雙方修正與改進教學與學習歷程的指南。 第159期專題主題為「何以為鑑,何以為師」,首篇由〈運用設計思考開啟跨領域素養導向教...
Libraries have quietly changed over the last 20 years. They have adapted early and consciously to the changes of digitalization, they have recognized the changed need of their users for collaborative work and derived new spatial concepts from this. Transparency and access to information, knowledge and encounters are the prerequisites for holistic social development. It is the challenge of the 21st century as the information age. This book presents the latest developments in library architecture as well as the way scientists and architects are meeting this challenge. With essays by Achim Bonte, Catherine Lau, Max Dudler, Georg Gewers, Henning Larsen Architects, MSAO Architects, Claudia Lux, M...