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Direct linkCox, Andrew – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
COVID is having immediate and long-term impacts on the use of libraries. But these changes will probably not alter the importance of the academic library as a space. In the decade pre COVID libraries saw a growing number of visits, despite the increasing availability of material digitally. The first part of the article offers an analysis of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Libraries, Library Facilities
Shane, Jackie – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This article stresses the importance of building design above technology as a relatively inexpensive way to reduce energy costs for a library. Emphasis is placed on passive solar design for heat and daylighting, but also examines passive ventilation and cooling, green roofs, and building materials. Passive design is weighed against technologies…
Descriptors: Library Facilities, Energy Conservation, Lighting, Ventilation
Black, Alistair – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
Although the quality, performance and future of public library services in the UK is a matter of debate, there is little doubt that in recent years, despite claims relating to the emergence of a cyber-society, interest in library buildings and the library as "place" has been intense, almost matching that seen during the Carnegie era of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Interior Design, Library Facilities, Public Libraries
MacVean, Donald S. – 1980
This report is a detailed analysis of a university committee's performance of an important and extensive task--the preparation of a program for a new library building. It is offered in order to clearly show the operations of a university committee, making a qualitative assessment of its performance, and to partially fill a void in the literature…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Action Research, Advisory Committees, Building Design
Foote, Steven M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2004
This article discusses and illustrates selected changes and trends in the way academic libraries are programmed and designed in response to changes in teaching techniques in higher education. The author draws particular attention to the new requirements for collaborative study in technology-rich spaces and makes detailed recommendations for those…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Libraries, Library Facilities, Facility Planning
Peer reviewedMichalak, Sarah – Journal of Library Administration, 1994
Discusses the future of libraries in the electronic age both in terms of the facility itself and of the types of information to be stored or accessed in the facility. Library facilities must have the ability to adapt easily both to technological changes, changing patterns of service and use, and the growth and change of departments, within the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Building Design, Facility Improvement, Facility Requirements
