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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
