Designing Library Space for Children

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Title:	Designing Library Space for Children
Description:	In recent years the library community has seen a renewed interest in library architecture and design. This is due to the change of focus from content and collection development to how libraries engage with their users in a digital age. This means that librarians, architects, politicians and patrons must develop new visions, concepts and ideas for the design and building of libraries. This book brings together a number of articles based on presentations from the IFLA World Congress 2009: historical view of the development of children's libraries over the last century, a look at how children use new media, libraries of the future, innovative design projects for children's libraries from around the world. current theme historical view and new projects
Authors:	Ingrid Bon, Andrew Cranfield, Karen Latimer
Resource Type:	eBook.
Subjects:	Children's libraries--Congresses, Libraries--Space utilization--Congresses, Library architecture--Congresses
Categories:	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General
Database:	eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

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Abstract:	In recent years the library community has seen a renewed interest in library architecture and design. This is due to the change of focus from content and collection development to how libraries engage with their users in a digital age. This means that librarians, architects, politicians and patrons must develop new visions, concepts and ideas for the design and building of libraries. This book brings together a number of articles based on presentations from the IFLA World Congress 2009: historical view of the development of children's libraries over the last century, a look at how children use new media, libraries of the future, innovative design projects for children's libraries from around the world. current theme historical view and new projects
ISBN:	9783110232165 9783110232172