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Planning the Modern Public Library Building - Gerard B. McCabe, 295 Pages
As an architect specializing in libraries, I have been caught up in the rapid changes affecting the planning and design of libraries, new technologies, com- puters, rethinking of services and mission, effective use of personnel, and the ef- fects of all of these on the functional and the aesthetic plan. At no point in history have there been as many changes in every aspect of the library. The dis- play, storage, movement, recording, and retrieval of books—and even the very nature of books—are in a state of flux. Libraries had a major revolution once before, in the nineteenth century, changing a system that had been static since the time of the Greeks and Ro- mans. Books over the preceding centuries were treasures kept in closed collections monitored by caretaker librarians. With the revolution, books for the first time were placed on open shelves, the result of Dewey’s development of a classi- fication system that placed books in a universal order. Each book was assigned digits that placed it in line among all books. The public flocked to the open library shelves, accessing unrestricted materials for every possible purpose, espe- cially education—the truly free library was born, and access to information bettered and advanced our democratic societies.Now we witness a second major revolution in information allowing infinite access to all information from anywhere. This revolution also centers on dig- its—great, long lines of bits read by microchips anywhere at any time. This ac- cess to universal information provides a broad betterment for the world and its people. The library of Dewey’s day is gone forever, replaced by the new library as a center for all forms of information and an equally important hub of commu- nity activities. In Managing Planning, my fellow colleagues and friends offer their individual wisdom, advice, and assistance to the reader in what Andrea Michaels terms the “ongoing reinvention” of the library. We plan for the next twenty years but are encouraged by Bill Sannwald to think about fifty years. We learn from the au- thors how to improve the planning processes, to gather support for library im- provements, to become more effective through broader sharing of space with others and meeting the needs of youths and seniors, and to adopt the best of cur- rent technological changes available for our buildings. For further formation, we are directed to other sources by Sandra Trezzo’s annotated bibliography. All this is of value to readers seeking to gracefully and successfully plan a new or ex- panded library. The bringing together of cost-effective and enhanced library services, and doing so by listening to the community and the experience of others, is a re- peated theme of our authors. Another theme developed in Part VII by Donald Bergomi and Elisabeth Martin is that libraries capture the history, image, and spirit of the communities they serve. I believe we agree that libraries have a value beyond the sum of their parts when they are more than just warehouses. Understanding the heritage of libraries in general and the needs and image of the communities served is an important consideration in the planning process. The broadest and fullest use of libraries will be made if they are representative of our time and place in history, in the same way that the Carnegie libraries were representative of their time. According to the architect Le Corbusier, “There are living pasts and dead pasts. Some pasts are the liveliest instigators of the present, the best springboards into the future.”1 Let us draw upon the library’s graceful architectural heritage, combine it with the available technologies of today, and create a new form of public building—open and free, wonderful, joy-inspiring places to join with our neighbors and children in finding information and guid- ance toward a better life. Let us dream the best library and find the way to build that dream.
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| Tác giả | : Gerard B. McCabe |
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| Đăng bởi | : Thanh Ngoc |
| Cập nhật | : 19.11.2011 |
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