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Latest News
- IFLA Green Library Award 2024 Results
- IFLA’s Environment Sustainability and Libraries Special Interest Group (ENSULIB) has announced the winner of the IFLA Green Library Award 2024.
- 13 Oct 2024
- IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award 2024
- IFLA and new prize sponsor Baker & Taylor announced the winning library for this year’s prestigious prize for the best new public library in the world.
- 11 Oct 2024
- Paisley’s Learning and Cultural Hub Wins National Award
- The new home for Paisley Central Library won the physical category at the EDGE Awards 2024
- 05 Sept 2024
Designing Libraries
The centre for library design and innovation: a resource for planning and design, a database of libraries and a marketplace for services
Featured Case Studies
- Mapplewell and Staincross Library, Barnsley
- The expansion and redesign of the facility bring new opportunities for learning, engagement, and relaxation to the heart of the community
- Chellaston Academy Library, Derby
- A dynamic hub for collaboration, creativity, and independent study
- Fore Street Library, Enfield, London, UK
- Fore Street Living Room Library, a flexible retro-fit is opening up new possibilities for a much-loved library to support local culture & community events.
- Ballymoney Library
- We're thrilled to showcase Ballymoney’s transformed spaces! Now a vibrant hub where stories come to life and creativity thrives!
- Macmillan Hub Library - North Edinburgh Arts
- Creative, Connected, Inspired! The new library and space for North Edinburgh Arts ensures a future for a creative, connected and inspired community.
- The International School of Port of Spain, Trindad and Tobago
- The International School of Port of Spain (ISPS) sought to create a modern and versatile library space catering to the diverse needs of its student body.
- Everyspace, Cambridgeshire, UK
- Everyspace is a council initiative working with local people to transform existing libraries into versatile spaces that expand the library’s functionality
- The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Library
- CERN one of the world's largest & most respected centres for scientific research chose FG Library & Learning to design, manufacture & install their library
- Thornhill Primary School Library, Islington, London, UK
- The new library makes use of a former undercroft to create a multifunctional space for browsing, readings, performance and role play.
- Southmead Public Library, Bristol
- The challenge was to design an ambitious community-run space as part of a larger, long-term regeneration plan for Southmead, Bristol.
- Elder Park Library and Community Hub, Glasgow
- Respect, Revitalize, Rejuvenate - We believe in respecting the story of the building, the history and the community!
Resources
- Designing Prison Libraries
- Prisons have a duty to try to reduce reoffending rates after release. The prison library has a big role to play in this effort.
- Resources for library design
- A reference library of websites, online resources, articles and books related to all aspects of library planning and design.
- Insights in library design
- Creative spaces for kids, learning spaces, revitalised public libraries, sustainable buildings, the future library - insights from our news stories.
- Reimagining the library
- Original articles and features on library innovation, library design trends and library service design, written or commissioned by Designing Libraries.
Featured Libraries
- Nottingham New Central Library
- A Hub of Regeneration and Community Engagement
- Dunfermline Library
- This library holds a special place in library history as it is the first of 2,509 Carnegie libraries Andrew Carnegie endowed throughout the world!
- LocHal, the library in a loco shed
- The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in a former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways.
- The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library
- Libraries in the Middle East have developed remarkably in terms of construction, engineering and design.
- Grantown Library, Highland
- Grantown Library is situated in Grantown-on-Spey, a small, popular holiday town in the Highlands, with a population of around two and a half thousand
- Oodi: Helsinki Central Library
- Helsinki Central Library Oodi serves visitors from the early hours till late in the evening seven days a week.