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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…

acohen August 29, 2022

Library Planning Research

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…

acohen August 7, 2022

Library Planning Research

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?…

acohen July 5, 2022

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen December 2, 2020

Library Planning Research library technology Social Library Issues

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…

acohen November 19, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen November 18, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

Cost Benefit Analysis: Support Sustainable Development Goals

Did you ever wonder what the “sustainable” part of “sustainable development” mean? According to IFLA's Libraries and the Sustainable Development Goals, it is a “development that meets the needs of…

acohen November 17, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

Library 2.0: The Human Touch

Digital work is changing the workplace in more ways than one. Besides the obvious change from book browsing to digital work, providing new distance-related services are responsible for a noticeable…

acohen November 5, 2020

Social Library Issues Space Planning

Libraries for Life: Knowledge for Success

The most fertile questions we use to develop discovery platforms is to focus the mind on the possibilities. What is the most unusual way someone uses the library? The fact…

acohen October 30, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

Libraries provide “just in time” expertise / “just in case” resources

Every community is unique, and for students a library provides 'the feeling of knowledge, the smell and the furniture of success, the lighting and the ambiance to de-stress,' that is…

acohen October 23, 2020