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Corporate Author International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Section on Library Buildings and Equipment. Satellite Conference (2013 : Singapore Management University)

Title 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.

Publication Info. Berlin : De Gruyter Saur, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) : color illustrations, plans.
text file PDF
Series IFLA publications ; volume 171
IFLA publications ; 171.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation: Spaces, Services and Staircases -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises: The Library's Response to Tough Times -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking: Turning Abandoned US Buildings into High-quality, Cost-effective Community Libraries -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design: Griffith Library (G11) Extension and GUMURRII Centre (Queensland, Australia) -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes: Remaking an Old Underground Book Stack into a User-Friendly Public Space at the Kungliga Biblioteket/National Library of Sweden -- 8. The End Justified the Means: Building Makerere University Library Extension with a Low Budget -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons: From Drawbacks to Solutions and Negotiations in between -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment: Get the Most out of Matched Funding and Careful Design Planning -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost: The Redesign Process of Hakunila Library -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners: Designing Library Spaces for a New Generation of Users without Library Budget -- Contributors.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language In English.
Subject Library buildings -- Design and construction -- Congresses.
Library buildings -- Design and construction.
Library buildings.
Libraries -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Libraries -- Economic aspects.
Libraries.
Library architecture -- Congresses.
Library architecture.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Sommer, Dorothea (Library administrator), editor.
Schmidt, Janine, editor.
Clevström, Stefan, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9783110375442 (OCoLC)944431300
ISBN 9783110375442 (electronic book)
3110375443 (electronic book)
9783110375435 (electronic book)
3110375435 (electronic book)
9783110396362 (electronic book)
311039636X (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1515/9783110375435