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- Enter the SCONUL Library Design Awards
- Refurbishment of Blackburn Central Library begins
- Exeter's new central library development
- New look library for Christchurch
- Modernisation plan for Bury's libraries
- Funding boosts new library developments in Wales
- Hammersmith Library set for £2m upgrade
- New library built from shipping containers
- Dublin Central Library relocation planned
- Bristol's Junction 3 library opens
- Atkinson Centre library opens in Southport
- Library to be built in Wallsend retail centre
- Dorchester library refurbishment begins
- New library for Finchley housing development
- SLA Library Design Awards shortlist announced
- New libraries, new spaces - for young and old
- £37m campus library for Birmingham University
- RFID for the Royal College of Nursing
- University of Hull releases first transformation images
- New library opens in Derby
- Refurbishment for Carnegie library
- The library under the garden
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- Library book vending machine for Warwickshire
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- Work starts on new Totnes library
- Library users pitch for their ideal library
- Take the library design survey
- More services for libraries on the move
- First bookless public library to open this year
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- Rotterdam Central Library gets its own 'hive'
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- Bromsgrove library to move to community facility
- £1.6m Lottery grant to fund new home for York archive
- New wing, new name for Durham University library
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- Learning resource centres to benefit from government funding
- Making marketing work in libraries
- Green library for Nottingham Trent University
- RFID is working
- Wakefield One - aspiring and inspiring
- Forster Ecospace awarded Bodleian contract
- Bold designs for York's new archive facility
- How to photograph your library
- The Hive - managing the new facility
- Aberdeen University Library
- New public library designed as a mountain of books
- Library interior design winners profiled
- The Duston School wins SLA Library Design Award
- Organic design concept for new Chinese library
- New Weston library opens in Town Hall hub
- How library spaces are changing
- University of Essex to expand library
- The designed librarian
- Liverpool Central Library reaches a new height
- Shops for libraries
- IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment newsletter
- York University Learning Commons, Toronto, Canada
- Manchester Central Library takes shape
- Better together - the potential of library partnerships
- Children's library and discovery centre
- Managing a successful library design project
- Self-service libraries in China
- Libraries in repurposed buildings
- The bookless library
- Lancashire to make £3m investment in libraries
- The Queen and the Hive
- The Passmore Edwards Centre opens
- New ISO standard for library buildings
- Lending laptops in libraries
- The library as an inventive space
- New library for BFI Southbank
- School Library Design Award finalists announced
- The library design test kitchen
- Bisset Adams to design Monza library
- JB Morrell Library reopens
- Durham University Library on the move
- Think services, not buildings
- Work starts on Leicestershire's biggest library
- World's first green library for kids
- The Hive scoops national sustainability award
- But is it art?
- Library of Birmingham building project changing lives
- Library shelving system for Library of Birmingham
- The Hive to open July
- Kent History and Library Centre opens for business
- Big screen collaboration hits academic libraries
- Library design and architecture 2012
- The Link opens doors for the community
- Library design around the world
- University of Exeter library to open in May
- New library for Wiltshire
- Dudley Libraries team wins EDGE award
- Library design showcase 2012
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- A Nimble way to read
- Llanelli Library reopens after £3.8m refurbishment
- New libraries added to the database
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- New Hackney library for Dalston
- Learning commons at Croydon College
- University of Aberdeen Library
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The Queen and the Hive
The Queen officially opens the Hive, Europe's first fully integrated and jointly run university and public library.
On July 11, the Queen opened the new £60million library and history centre in Worcester, a joint venture between the University and the County Council to serve the county’s population of 550,000 residents and 10,000 students.
The landmark project, a decade in the planning and with a stunning visual impact on the cityscape, is the first such extensive collaboration outside the US.
The Hive brings together books, documents and archives from both organisations under one roof. It houses one of the largest children’s libraries in the country, affording the opportunity for children to grow up with the library, from infant to undergraduate.
Staff from both the public and university libraries will work side by side, trained to deliver an extended range of services to all users from a combined stock.
The library was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, with interior furnishings designed and installed by Demco Interiors. A gallery of photos can be seen on the Demco website (follow link on the right).
“If there is a big commitment to working within the community, then it makes sense to combine the efforts of the University and the Council library service.”
Anne Hannaford
Director of Information and Learning Services, University of Worcester
“We have made a significant investment so that everyone coming into the library will get the same user experience.”
Kathy Kirk
Strategic Libraries and Learning Manager, Worcestershire County Council
News links
- The Hive
- Visit The Hive website.
- The Hive in pictures
- A slide show of photos on the Demco Interiors website.
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