...Luke Bacon; Kathleen Azali; Alexandra Lara Crosby; Benjamin Forster Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify shared themes and concerns of two local and critical archives by comparing their design and day-to-day practice. Design/methodology/approach The action research has drawn...

...Charlotte Clements Edited by John A. Flannery and Karen M. Smith Eco-Library Design Dordrecht Springer 2014 231 pp. (hardcoverore-book)ISBN:978-94-007-4077-8,978-94-007-4078-5 99.99/83.29 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Architecture...

...Sandra Smith Aaron   Schmidt and Amanda   Etches . User Experience (UX) Design for Libraries (The Tech Set No. 18) . London : Facet Publishing   2012 . 112 pp.   £34.95 , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐843‐9 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Web sites User...

... is difficult to read and its style is more like a scientific volume rather than universal book. Certainly, some aspects of this book are well worthy of the attention of much broader group of specialists with an interest in design. The topic of the book, directly or indirectly, can influence various...

... --> 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...

... the physical needs of a library and the actual design of the internal space taking into account the clientele, form the focus of the next chapters – from how much space is required to how to cater for the development of the client. Moving on, Lushington changes his focus to look at the practical use...

...Martin Guha Information services Library buildings Design As I grow ever more cynical with age, I have come to realise that there are two sorts of innovation: one where someone really discovers something new that changes the way other people look at the world, and the other where...

... can be seen as a doorway through which we glimpse the text. By connecting up the dots with Carey's work, we see that it was better publicised and sold because it won an award and had the strap‐line, design and cover illustration varied with different markets. Thus, we start to get a clearer impression...

...Stuart Hannabuss Design Bibliographics History Books Printing The author makes clear that his concern in this book is “not with illustrations in the strict sense of pictorial aids to the understanding of a text” but “with wood‐ and steel‐engraving and with lithography...

... buildings, custom‐designed with flexible areas and space for future expansion, are seen as the ideal for the modern library, restrictions placed by funding, site, and similar factors, often mean that new‐build is not always an option. Other solutions must then be found and these often involve...

...Stuart James Giles   Verlade . Designing Exhibitions: Museums, Heritage, Trade and World Fairs (2nd ed.) . Aldershot : Ashgate Publishing   2001 . xxiv +193 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0 566 08317 5   £45.00 Exhibitions Design We can justifiably claim many professional...

...Ian Rogerson Books Design Printing Ruari McLean has been a ceaseless propagandist for good book design and can claim to have had a significant influence on the look of the book from 1950 until the end of printing by hot metal. In general, standards of book production have declined...

...Basil Amaeshi The article discusses the construction of a controlled vocabulary for the indexing of petroleum and gas related articles in indigenous periodicals and newspapers in the library system of the Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC). The major problems encountered in the design...

...Stuart James William Blake.   With an introduction by David Bindman . The Complete Illuminated Books . London : Thames and Hudson   2000 . 480pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0 500 51014 8   £39.95 Books Design Literature Lighting Between the medieval illuminated...

...Ian Rogerson Biography Design Books Rudolf Koch was the most influential figure in twentieth century book design in Germany prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. His life was dedicated to the German black letter, in all its forms, which he saw as central to the cultural life...

...Ian Rogerson The contributions of Bruce Rogers, Daniel Updike, Carl Rollins and Frederick Warde to typographic design are well covered and the author displays great competence in dealing with such aspects as production costs and publicity. Curiously, for a book dealing with “Modernity”, Benton’s...