Library interior design – award winners
Posted by: kimtblogger on: September 5, 2008
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“The Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) have announced the winners of the 2008 Library Interior Design Competition” (Order, N 2008).
I plan to spend part of my weekend checking these winners out (virtually of course) to see if I what has made them winners.
Ideas Store…UK
Posted by: kimtblogger on: September 5, 2008
Public libraries have been very innovative in their approach to library space design. Perhaps it stems from the fact that they have a level of connection with the community that doesn’t happen in academic libraries.
I am particularly interested in the Ideas Stores in the UK. They taken the retail paradigm and applied to libraries. I am particularly taken by the boldness and colour in these spaces. I believe that there are elements that we could use in an academic environment.
They way we engage our community is by creating spaces more conducive to learning. How to we create libraries that a seemless with Faculty? What would such a library look like? I am trying to visualise such a library now.
Watch this space…
Notice board… your ideas
Posted by: kimtblogger on: March 14, 2008
I have put up some ideas I have after attending a terrific workshop run by Kevin Hennah who you will meet as I am going to invite him to work with us.
They include identifying the value of our space where are the “hot spots” are and ensuring that we place the collections or services that are most used in the right places. With that in mind I thought we might want to consider moving design down to level 1. Anyway I have left the ideas up on the whiteboard and also I am inviting your comments/suggestions.
I will post more about Kevin’s presentation soon. Simple things we can do now are:
- remove old/damaged equipment/furniture
- thing about our colour themes
- regroup furniture into pods (small groupings) like a living room
- declutter the service desk.
- Front face the collection – could we put the DVD covers on display for example
- remove old style signs/posters
- review signage
So it will be exciting to see what we can achieve with a small budget but lets go for it. Feel free to comment and post your ideas.
Getting students to design the library
Posted by: kimtblogger on: March 11, 2008
This chapter describes work done at University of Rochester where librarians designed a library and then they got students to do the same exercise. Essentially our assumptions about what students want is often wrong and getting their input need not be too onerous.
Check out the article here: http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-27280/chapter_four.pdf
Starting the Design Brief
Posted by: kimtblogger on: March 4, 2008
Today I started work on a draft design brief. The aim of the document is to gather together my thoughts on the vision and aims for redesigning the Campus Library.
This document will form the basis of discussions with potential space planners/designers and with Library management. It will be distributed to staff on campus for comment and feedback.
It includes:
- aims
- design style
- rationale/reason for the project
- decision making processes
- expectations
Some photos of Curtin
Posted by: kimtblogger on: February 27, 2008
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These are interesting….
http://www.library.cqu.edu.au/temp/curtin-ecu/index.htm
Some nice furniture and display stands.
We have a budget and discussion are underway
Posted by: kimtblogger on: February 18, 2008
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Unfortunately our budget isn’t for actual renovations but a budget for a plan. So now it is time to get those thinking caps on.
Just some of our considerations. I know most of you have been through this process before. Hopefully this will be a much more fruitful process.
According to Evans and Layzell Ward (2004) our new or revamped facility should be:
- flexible
- adaptable
- expandable
- accessible
- compact
- stable
- secure!
- attractive
- economical
- comfortable
- varied
