New Libraries in Old Buildings : : Creative Reuse / / ed. by Petra Hauke, Robert Niess, Karen Latimer.

• Funder: IFLA Headquarters
• MitwirkendeR: Barz-Malfatti, Hilde,; Boemaars, Jeske,; Buschmann, Paul,; Fernández Grané, Aurora,; Frank, Michael B.,; Grove, Tara Murray,; Grunsven, Jan van,; Kadi, Canan,; Karl-Johnson, Gabriella,; Kellerhuis, Bart,; Kiladis, Lia,; Knoche, Michael,; Kuikka, Nina,; Kuunifaa, Cletus D.,; Latimer, Karen,; Lespets, Samuel,; Li, Yang,; Manz, Angelika,; Marciano, Rémy,; Mayer, Rebekah,; McLeod, Caroline,; Meulen, Anne-Lise Van der,; Nevado, Jordi Gual,; Niess, Robert,; Radzkowski, Jürgen,; Raimondi, Anna,; Regulski, Katharina,; Rogel, Ricard Mercadé,; Romero, Santi,; Schmitz, Karl-Heinz,; Seeliger, Frank,; Small, Kim,; Sosa, Jorge F.,; Sutter, Willi,; Süppel, Petra,; Van Den Berghe, Raf,; Vlimmeren, Ton van,
• HerausgeberIn: Hauke, Petra,; Latimer, Karen,; Niess, Robert,
• Author: IFLA Headquarters
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Saur,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: IFLA Publications
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 379 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libra...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• About IFLA
• Preface
• Part 1: Creative Building Reuse: Challenges and Responses
• 1 Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse
• 2 Using Historic Buildings to House New Libraries: Prerequisites and Conditions for Successful Revival
• 3 The Reuse of Buildings: Libraries Behaving Sustainably
• Part 2: Case Studies: Public Libraries
• 4 Patyegarang Place with a New Library and Pavilion Revitalizing a Hospital for Sydney's Inner West Community
• 5 A Fire Hall Reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir Branch in Ontario, Canada
• 6 Cultural Reconstruction of a Traditional Chinese Courtyard House into the Suochengli Neighbourhood Library
• 7 Converting and Extending a Historic Fire Station into a Library in Berlin, Germany
• 8 Building Community Through Transforming 17th Century Barns in Kirchzarten, Germany
• 9 The Mössingen Library Emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany
• 10 Rehabilitating a Textile Plant for Barcelona's Les Corts Neighbourhood Library
• 11 Repurposing a Grocery Store for the Joutsa Public Library in Finland
• 12 Creating a Library from a Locomotive Shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands
• 13 Converting the Utrecht Post Office into the Neude Library
• Part 3: Case Studies: Academic Libraries
• 14 The Conversion of a Science Institute to a Faculty Library in Ghent, Belgium
• 15 A Cattle Market Becomes a University Library in Germany
• 16 Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany
• 17 From Locomotives to Libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany
• 18 Reviving the Hexagon for the University Library on the Luminy Campus of Aix- Marseille University
• 19 The American University of Paris Library in the Student Life and Learning Commons
• 20 A Slaughterhouse Pavilion Becomes an Architectural Library in Rome
• 21 A Library Hovering in the Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia
• 22 Transforming a Match Factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
• Appendix
• Sustainability and Reusing Buildings for Libraries: A Review of Selected Documents
• Contributors