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Reinvention - stage one2 comments

jennylu wrote 2 days ago: I feel like I’ve hardly been here of late. There have been plenty of things to write about, bu … more →

Tags: change, Library, Library Relocation, Library spaces

From DBL: More To The Library Experience Than What We See

jdondoyle wrote 1 week ago: By StevenB on library_design When I speak to library colleagues about design and design thinking I t … more →

Tags: user experience, library planning

From Designing Better Libraries: UX And Sketching – Two Videos Worth Your Time

jdondoyle wrote 3 weeks ago: Posted at DBL One thing you can say about the design community is that do produce a good number of i … more →

Tags: Issues and Challenges, user experience

New Podcast Episdode: Writing, Reading and Creativity! Plus, we have new furniture!2 comments

deirdrea wrote 2 months ago: We finally have new furniture in the Mount Kisco Library teen room! Look! Isn’t it lovely? Plu … more →

Tags: Books, Design, Entertainment, furniture, Library, Author, Casprini, italian design, Loewenstein furniture

Academic Library Visits

Kate wrote 2 months ago: On the 20th July I embarked upon a Chartership visit to two university libraries.  I have been a use … more →

Tags: Libraries, CPD, Academic Libraries

User Experience Librarianship

youthadvocate wrote 2 months ago: Here is a link to a great blog about library design and user experience:  http://dbl.lishost.org/blo … more →

Tags: user experience

Christopher Wren's Library, Cambridge

deirdrea wrote 3 months ago: Christopher Wren’s Library, originally uploaded by deirdrej. OK, everybody! I promised you pic … more →

Tags: Design, Library, Architecture, Cambridge UK, christopher wren, floodproofing, Photo, Snapshot

CILIP Umbrella 2009-3

Kate wrote 3 months ago: The Changing Landscape of Libraries- Tim Leach  BPD Underlying presumption that change in library de … more →

Tags: Libraries, CPD, CILIP Umbrella, Conference, Professional, Advocacy, libraries change lives

JD's Visit to the University of Colorado Denver HSL

jdondoyle wrote 4 months ago: Gary Freiburger and I were fortunate to attend a gathering of librarians from the 4 Corners region, … more →

Tags: Physical Plant, building programs

Niiiice

bonnie09 wrote 4 months ago: The Liminal Librarian gives a picture tour of this gem of a library in Idaho. … more →

Tags: Public libraries, designing libraries

Everywhere is here - is that the school library of the future?4 comments

jennylu wrote 5 months ago: This is Guy Adam Ailion’s animation, an introduction to his Architectural Masters Thesis calle … more →

Tags: YouTube, Libraries, School Library, Library and Information Science, Guy Adam Ailion, Marianne Lenox

How I Met Your Mother: Well not really, but maybe

ch0tt0 wrote 7 months ago: So unlike a lot of people out there in the world, I do not have cable nor do I watch TV, weird I kno … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Merchandising, How I Met Your Mother, Neal Patrick Harris

The Problem with Open Concept Libraries

ch0tt0 wrote 7 months ago: So the library branch I work in is only 5 years old and the branch is rather spectacular looking wit … more →

Tags: Book Review, Children, Love, Cape Breton

Learning and design in your library 1 comment

Judy O'Connell wrote 8 months ago: Following on from my last post, I was really lucky to do my presentation after Kevin Hennah, and hel … more →

Tags: Australia, Library 2.0, learning 2.0, Collaboration, New Media

Largest public library in Scandinavia

bronwynr wrote 9 months ago: Schmidt hammer lassen architects to design Our friends from SHL architects just sent us their new pr … more →

Tags: Library

Designing modern libraries...

Christine Rooney-Browne wrote 10 months ago: Doing a bit of research on public library architecture today and stumbled upon the Designing Librari … more →

Tags: Public libraries, library architecture, designing libraries

Making it Happen?2 comments

openoculus wrote 11 months ago: This is is the hardest question asked this quarter.  How do we take these great, forward-thinking us … more →

Tags: bibliocommons, Sci-Fi, DEWEY, Web development

Library of Tomorrow?2 comments

openoculus wrote 11 months ago: I’d like for libraries to be all things to all people.  I want the brick and mortar location because … more →

Tags: Architecture, technology, librarians, Libraries, Croquet, Gaming, outreach, Second-Life, Seniors

General Considerations for Library Layout1 comment

barthes02 wrote 12 months ago: by Greg Andrzejewski “The survival of the library as a space is not dependent on smart archite … more →

Tags: library layout, library signage


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