High quality design on a low budget : new library buildings : proceedings of the Satellite Conference of the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section "Making ends meet: high quality design on a low budget" held at Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University, 15-16 August 2013 / edited by Dorothea Sommer, Janine Schmidt and Stefan Clevström.

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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Section on Library Buildings and Equipment. Satellite Conference (2013 : Singapore Management University)

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783110375442
3110375443
9783110375435
3110375435
9783110396362
311039636X
3110375273
9783110375275

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Conference papers and proceedings

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727.8 23

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Z679 .I58 2013eb

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AN 79000

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation: Spaces, Services and Staircases -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises: The Library's Response to Tough Times -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking: Turning Abandoned US Buildings into High-quality, Cost-effective Community Libraries -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design: Griffith Library (G11) Extension and GUMURRII Centre (Queensland, Australia) -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes: Remaking an Old Underground Book Stack into a User-Friendly Public Space at the Kungliga Biblioteket/National Library of Sweden -- 8. The End Justified the Means: Building Makerere University Library Extension with a Low Budget -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons: From Drawbacks to Solutions and Negotiations in between -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment: Get the Most out of Matched Funding and Careful Design Planning -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost: The Redesign Process of Hakunila Library -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners: Designing Library Spaces for a New Generation of Users without Library Budget -- Contributors.

Summary: This publication brings together a range of building projects from National, Academic and Public Libraries from different countries of the world showing how these libraries are able to continue to provide high quality library space that is affordable in times of difficult economic circumstances. We will hear about the building processes, co-operation with architects and engineers and how librarians and users have reacted to these new buildings.

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This publication brings together a range of building projects from National, Academic and Public Libraries from different countries of the world showing how these libraries are able to continue to provide high quality library space that is affordable in times of difficult economic circumstances. We will hear about the building processes, co-operation with architects and engineers and how librarians and users have reacted to these new buildings.

In English.

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