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About this book
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- About IFLA
- Preface
- Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses
- 1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse
- 2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival
- 3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably
- Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries
- 4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney’s Inner West Community
- 5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library’s John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada
- 6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library
- 7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany
- 8 Building Community Through Transforming 17<sup>th</sup> Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany
- 9 The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany
- 10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona’s Les Corts Neighbourhood Library
- 11 Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland
- 12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands
- 13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library
- Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries
- 14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium
- 15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany
- 16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany
- 17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany
- 18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University
- 19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons
- 20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome
- 21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia
- 22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
- Appendix
- Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents
- Contributors