Library Buildings

This article evaluates the architectural designs of several U.S. libraries.

Topics include the library as a public space, arguments for investing in libraries in the Digital Age, and renovation of the Central Library in Madison, Wisconsin.

Topics include adaptive sensory design, digital media, interactive environments, library architecture design, and multi-sensory design within public library spaces.

Concerns the remodeling and expansion of American small and medium-sized public library buildings constructed between about 1900 and the First World War.

Report sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Report done as part of the Stanford California State Library Institute on 21st Century Librarianship

Includes the Ottawa Public Library, the Beaverbrook Branch and the Kitchener Public Library.

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Topics covered include a public engagement initiative implemented by the library to supplement the contextual work, global scan of best practices in library design, and six interrelated design goals made for a new Central Library based on staff engagement and community input.