... --> Academic libraries Libraries Buildings Library management Library services Librarians have been reinventing themselves and their buildings for the last 20 years. Digital resources and services have moved many of the so‐called core activities into offices, homes and more recently into pockets...

... --> Buildings Library buildings Information services Design In this work, Michael Dewe has successfully edited together an interesting volume of case studies of significant recent library refurbishments, which he tops and tails with an introduction and a summing up which put the case studies in context...

...Patricia Layzell Ward Michael   Dewe . Planning Public Library Buildings: Concepts and Issues for the Librarian . Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing Limited   2006 . xii+354 pp. hardback £60 , ISBN: 0‐7546‐3388‐8 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Public...

...Trevor Peare Nolan   Lushington . Libraries Designed for Users: A 21st Century Guide . New York, NY and London : Neal‐Schuman   2002 . 247 pp. , ISBN: 1‐55570‐419‐0 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Buildings Libraries Plans This is a useful...

...Trevor Peare Edited by William W.   Sannwald . Checklist of Library Building Design Considerations (4th ed.) . Chicago, IL : American Library Association   2001 . 184 pp. , ISBN: 0‐8389‐3506‐0   £31.95 Libraries Buildings This is a book that could be well...

...Iona Beauly Edited by Marie‐Francoise   Bisbrouck . Library Buildings in a Changing Environment, 1st ed. . Munich : K.G. Saur   2001 (1st ed.) . 230 pp. , ISBN: 3‐598‐21819‐2   DEM 98.00 (IFLA Members DEM 73.50), E54.00 Design Technology Libraries Buildings...

...J.D. Hendry Williamsburg   Regional Library . Library Construction from a Staff Perspective . Jefferson, NC and London : McFarland   2001 . 170 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0 7864 0838 3   £33.25 Libraries Buildings This is a happy book. For much of the 1990s the board...

...Richard M. Atuti Adapted library buildings hinder rather than aid the optimum organisation and use of the library and information services, a situation which often puts librarians in difficulties by their reacting to problems, rather than anticipating them. A survey of some ten community libraries...

...K.C. Harrison Edited by T.D.   Webb . Building Libraries for the 21st Century: The Shape of Information . Jefferson NC and London : McFarland & Co   2000 . viii + 270pp. , ISBN: 0 7864 0665 8   £41.25 UK distribution by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone Buildings...

... and grants, by dates of adoption of the library acts and building completion, by county and city, and the money granted by Carnegie per county and city. There is a six‐page bibliography and an eight‐page three‐columned index. The physical presentation is superb, combining a feel of relaxed quality...

... by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone s Buildings Preservation Archives Collection management All concerned with preservation ‐‐ librarians, archivists, conservators ‐‐ will recall the two volumes by G.M. and D.G. Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials: a Manual and Bibliography on the Care...

...Alan Day Architecture British Library Buildings Libraries Faced in these columns with a book, written by a professional architect, which is intended for “anyone interested in modern architecture”, a mere librarian is wise to watch where he is treading very carefully, even though...

...K.C. Harrison David   Kaser . The Evolution of the American Academic Library Building . Lanham, MD and London : The Scarecrow Press   1997 . xiii + 203 pp , ISBN: 0 8108 3219 4   £34.20 distributed in the UK by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone, Kent Academic libraries...

... Reports, Law Reports Series, and Lloyd’s Law Reports are to be found on the shelves of leading law libraries in the Commonwealth. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Buildings Kenya University libraries Reference materials such as legal encyclopaedias, dictionaries, directories...

...Adrian Olsen Reports on a new library to be opened in November 1999. Outlines the facilities which will be available and emphasizes the wide range of services which will be offered. Describes the architecture and design of the building, detailing the environmental considerations which were...

... of the projects, some of which took several years to resolve. Includes some details of the main building problems encountered and how they were eventually overcome. Describes some elements of library design including disabled access, floor size and layout as well as security implications. As the building...

...Bob Duckett Discusses the importance of recording surviving library buildings as a contribution to architectural and library history research,illustrated by a selection of photographs of historic library buildings in Yorkshire. Concludes that the photographs provide much to be learned from. Much...