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Aaron Cohen Associates LTD began in the early 1970’s when our founder, Aaron Cohen, Library Consultant, led the first space planning workshop for the US Federal Government. This began our 37 year involvement as public and academic building consultants. Over the years the practice expanded to include government, law, medical, school, and corporate/special libraries. This experience has given our associates an in-depth knowledge of the ways in which libraries function and their dependence upon their facilities. Our associates are an interdisciplinary group of library planners, designers, fund raising and development consultants. Our work involves traditional and unique library buildings. Our strategic planners focus on practical results. We research new and different types of human behavior associated with learning environments. Feasibility projects include special collections, archives and knowledge management. Our experience is broad: projects have ranged in size from the very small research environments to very large urban libraries.
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Our firm’s on-going research in library design was applied during our fifteen year involvement with the National Library of Singapore. We develop facility plans that support strategic long and short term planning.
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Over the years, our group has developed program models for public, academic, special, school and governmental planning. Attributes for library design include: user spaces, collections, archives and staff workflow requirements.
We have been especially successful in fostering imaginative solutions. We can provide program samples to prospective clients. Contact us: Library Consultant
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Our work has yielded exciting programmatic innovations. For example, we were the originators of the concept of the Information Commons. We placed cafes in libraries and introduced the concept of cultural community spaces. Our library models have supported many librarians, managers, and architects by simplifying the facility program.
Articles: Information Outlook: Libraries, Knowledge Management, and Communities of Practice - Alex Cohen Public Library Quarterly: The Visual Scan and the Design for Future-Oriented Libraries - Alex Cohen, Elaine Cohen
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