Library Planning Consultant

Library Planning Research Space Planning

library – the tech answer

The Pew Report Internet and American Life Project did a survey on mobile devises and how its changing the way we live. It stated that 61 percent do not feel…

acohen April 20, 2009

Library Planning Research

WAYS TO IMPROVE LEARNING SPACES WITH TRACKING SENSORS

How well does the "library as place" support learning? It is important for the library building to provide natural flow and movement. When there are bottlenecks in the flow of…

acohen April 14, 2009

Space Planning work in progress

WAYS TO IMPROVE LEARNING SPACES

TRACKING SENSORS What tools can we use to make "library as place" better? It is important for the library building to provide a natural flow and movement. When there are…

acohen April 11, 2009

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

Reimagining the printed page

The future of the book is very important to our work. There was an article in the New York Times, April 4, 2009 about Bradley Inman - the inventor of…

acohen April 8, 2009

Library Planning Research

Library Interview Questions

The following are interview questions that our firm has been asked to address for an academic library project. We are posting them because they are important for those to consider…

acohen April 7, 2009

Library Planning Research Space Planning

visual scan

The library building is a structural framework of spaces that support a network of physical and virtual library services and operations. We have developed a measurement approach to visualize each…

acohen April 3, 2009

Library Planning Research

understanding learning spaces

One of the oldest learning spaces is the church, synagoge and mosque. They consist of a place to study, a teacher and students and a holy book - (ex. bible, torah or koran). There are lessons…

acohen April 3, 2009

Social Library Issues

value of library space

We have been discussing the value of library space for many years. Yesterday, April 1, 2009, we had an internal discussion about the economy and the value of libraries. An…

acohen April 2, 2009

Library Planning Research

library book research

We are starting to develop the new ACA book - library planning and design. Come here for more info..

acohen April 1, 2009

Library Planning Research

IFLA Conference

We are looking to go to the IFLA conference in 2009. At the conference, we will seek to meet with librarians / Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - Libraries and Web…

acohen April 1, 2009