School Libraries and Academic Innovation Labs
As we begin the new school year, we would like to take the opportunity to share one aspect of how a school or academic library can make a difference in…
LIBRARY DESIGN / LEARNING GARDEN
Understanding the learning garden and library environment involves special problem solving, navigation, trying to make sense of a chaotic book shelving system wayfinding information that may help interacting with the…
New Library Planning Methods / New Digital Resource Strategies
To begin the development of a library or digital asset management project, consider methods of zooming into a problem and zooming out. This will give your organization the ability to…
Welcome to the 21st Century Library
To challenge your current perspective, you can view the library as an educational community center. You can look for commonalities that point to unmet needs. You can program the library…
Strategies For Your Library’s Tech Intensity
Technology has always found a home in libraries. But applied library tech - website / interface design has often been consigned to the backrooms of libraries. Fortunately, that's changing. Several…
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Thinking About Public Library Strategies
It is not surprising public libraries are eager to help their communities. According to the American Library Associations core values - they provide access, education and life-long learning, diverse programs…
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The Value of the Academic Library
LIBRARY PLANNING RESEARCH More than 20 years ago, Aaron Cohen AIA started our library planning research. First, he started with a question: what is the value of the academic library?…
Five Laws of Library Progress
While we were working on the development of international library buildings, we visited the Bibliotheca Alexandria, where the Internet Archive had created a partnership. They were working on the development…
Making Sense of Complicated Information: Inclusive Planning is Just the Beginning
Since about the early 1980's, computer scientists have been predicting a networked world. Some people have awaited it with eagerness, others with trepidation. Networked Computers and Social Media are supposed…
A Better Library: Design Thinking
Librarians find themselves working in networks where information is generated, organized, indexed, transferred, digitized, stored, retrieved, selected, replaced, transmitted or discarded. The access with which you can reach is beyond…
