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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. We are an interdisciplinary group of library planners. We support library building projects through programming and schematic design. Our library consultants provide alternatives. We analyze building services, and apply custom metrics. The result is not a minimum standard or an assumption. It is a model with the ability to develop alternatives. Librarians can evaluate user seating, collection layout, technology and staff requirements. Feasibility projects include preservation centers , museums, special collections, library technology and digital library planning. 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. Collection plans that support long and short term operations.
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Over the years, our group has used GIS maps, campus plans, and census data to develop program models for public, academic, special, school and governmental planning. Attributes for library design include: user spaces, collections, archives and staff workflow requirements. System Study (Barnstable, MA.)
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Our service planning has yielded exciting programmatic innovations: Information Commons, Collaborative Workspace, Special Collections and Archive Research Spaces. We developed green libraries and introduced the concept of cultural community spaces.
Our collection models support librarians, managers, and architects by integrating guidelines and simplifying it.
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