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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 / ed. by Stefan Clevström, Janine Schmidt, Dorothea Sommer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: IFLA Publications ; 171Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Saur, [2016]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 211 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110375275
  • 9783110396362
  • 9783110375435
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 022.3 23
LOC classification:
  • Z679.5 .H544 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes -- 8. The End Justified the Means -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners -- 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110375435

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes -- 8. The End Justified the Means -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners -- Contributors

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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