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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798166503321

Titolo

High quality design on a low budget : new library buildings : proceedings of the Satellite Conference of the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section "Making ends meet: high quality design on a low budget" held at Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University, 15-16 August 2013 / / edited by Dorothea Sommer, Janine Schmidt and Stefan Clevström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Saur, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-037543-5

3-11-039636-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Collana

IFLA Publications, , 0344-6891 ; ; Volume 171

Classificazione

AN 79000

Disciplina

022.3

Soggetti

Library buildings - Design and construction

Libraries - Economic aspects

Library architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes -- 8. The End Justified the Means -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.