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Library Space Planning and Design
Best Practices And Case Studies from Special, Academic, and Rare Book Libraries
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eBook - ePub
Library Space Planning and Design
Best Practices And Case Studies from Special, Academic, and Rare Book Libraries
About this book
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Library and Information Science**Library Space Planning and Design discusses library planning methods to improve academic libraries, learning commons, undergraduate and graduate studies, special collections, and archives. Often, these projects required difficult challenges. For example, how to integrate student success centers or create new learning commons into a library. The book shows how a library plan can be both sustainable and attractive to the users and how to integrate library functions, furniture, and equipment to enhance the learning environment. Case studies from the author's interactions with library staff, stakeholders, and community leadership in the planning process are also included for additional clarity.
- Takes a multidisciplinary approach to library services and space planning
- Includes case studies to act as unique learning opportunities, and offers a customized methodology to support libraries of every kind
- Covers comprehensive planning methods that will help improve libraries
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Library & Information ScienceTable of contents
- Library Space Planning and Design
- Chapter 1 Academic library planning
- Chapter 2 Library planning and data gathering
- Chapter 3 Service needs assessment
- Chapter 4 Functional relationship analysis
- Chapter 5 Modernizing the library program
- Chapter 6 Library architecture and service programming
- Chapter 7 Library design and architecture considerations
- Chapter 8 Library planning and design standards
- Index
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