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 /

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 / / ed. by Stefan Clevström, Janine Schmidt, Dorothea Sommer.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Bostick, Sharon,
Byrne, Ursula,
Clevström, Stefan,
Cribb, Gulcin,
Ervasti, Katariina,
Gamage, Ruwan,
Kodikara, Ruvini,
Kugler, Cecilia,
Legerton, Graham,
Murman, Hans,
Musoke, Maria G. N.,
O’Brien, Linda,
Poling, Jack,
Priyanto, Ida Fajar,
Puustinen, Paula,
Scherer, Jeffrey,
Schmidt, Janine,
Sommer, Dorothea,
Yekta, Mohammad Mahdi Jahani,
HerausgeberIn:
Clevström, Stefan,
Schmidt, Janine,
Sommer, Dorothea,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Saur, , [2016]
©2015
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:IFLA Publications , 171
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 211 p.)
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Table of 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

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