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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Sommer, Dorothea, editor.

Schmidt, Janine, editor.

Clevström, Stefan, editor.

Series:

IFLA publications ; Volume 171.

IFLA Publications, 0344-6891 ; Volume 171

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Library buildings--Design and construction--Congresses.

Library buildings.

Libraries--Economic aspects--Congresses.

Libraries.

Library architecture--Congresses.

Library architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Saur, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110375435

3110375435

9783110396362

311039636X

OCLC:

945721118