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Case Studies
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- Access control at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
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- Woodlock Hall Library, All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University (DCU)
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Resources
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Resources for library design
- Planning and designing library buildings and services
- Designing the academic library and learning centre
- Designing the public library
- Designing the school library
- Libraries, communities and the built environment
- Green libraries: sustainable library buildings
- Conservation and storage
- Technology and digital library services
- Insights in library design
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Reimagining the library
- Libraries in the 21st Century - the next 20 years?
- Finland's first container library
- Open all hours
- Designing an effective school library - art or science?
- Remodelling libraries: trends and opportunities (part 1)
- Remodelling libraries: trends and opportunities (part 2)
- Digital library spaces
- Dementia friendly public spaces
- A starter guide to library makerspaces
- Design innovation in school libraries
- Library design awards
- Dokk1: Impressions of an Impressive library
- Designing beautiful data
- A social hub of information, technology and services
- The Library of Birmingham: engaging the community
- Rethinking libraries in Surrey
- Idea Stores: the next generation
- Designing college libraries for Generation Z
- Merton's transformation journey
- Essential Design Guidelines
- Free graphic designs
- Better by design
- The new libraries of Europe
- Australia's winning libraries
- Designing the future library: a marketplace for suppliers
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News
- IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year Award 2024
- Paisley’s Learning and Cultural Hub Wins National Award
- Bringing the Outside In - Where Nature Meets Design
- More 2024 News
- 2023 News
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2022 News
- Better By Design: An Introduction to Planning, Designing and Developing Library Buildings
- New Libraries in Old Buildings: creative reuse
- Restoration
- Architectural Recycling
- IFLA/Systematic Public Library of the Year Award Shortlist 2022
- LIBER Architecture Group seminar April 2022
- Shaping Plans for Sunderland Culture House
- Libraries Connected - The Next Five Years
- New Range of Children's Furniture
- House of Wisdom
- Designing Libraries Round Table
- IFLA Library of the Year Award
- And the winner is ... Library of the Year 2022
- Happy Birthday to The Hive
- New University of Bristol Library
- RIBA Stirling Prize winner 2022: The New Library, Magdalene College
- Warm and Safe Libraries
- Green Libraries Manifesto
- Shopping Centre Library Plans
- Inviting New Library for Uithoorn
- Greener Heating Grants
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2021 News
- Sunderland's Culture House
- Library, whale or ocean liner?
- Meeting spaces in libraries
- Discover a wonderland
- Berlin's library and testimony archive
- The restoration of Norbury Library
- New space for University of Birmingham campus
- A natural library
- Designing a new heart for a small city
- Library design matters: a webinet series from IFLA
- Doncaster's new library opens virtually
- The Nest in Bexley
- New school library in an apple orchard
- Australian Library Design Award winners 2021
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2020 News
- Oslo's new library opens June 18
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Library renovation
- New library and community park
- Media library in a landscape
- FG completes Havana library project
- Town House to open at Kingston University
- Ludinghausen: small but beautiful
- Designed to inspire
- Winning proposal for Ibsen Library
- Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library
- A bookshop in a paddy field
- A library in rural Nepal
- The hospitable library of the future
- Helping libraries thrive in uncertain times
- Optimising learning space
- The concrete wormhole library
- Safe working: an architectural perspective
- Designing the online experience
- BRAINSTORM will light up Bjorvika in Oslo
- Library Buildings in Europe
- The safe reopening of libraries
- The living room behind the bookshelves
- Landmark new library for Bristol
- Ottawa's new library revealed
- What Nottingham Central Library will look like
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2019 News
- 2020 LIBER-LAG seminar programme
- SCONUL Design Awards winners
- Oslo's new main library
- New Sydney library opens
- Recognition for library modernisation
- Sensory project transforms children's libraries
- Snohetta's vision for new library
- Holyhead Market Hall renovation
- Luxembourg National Library opens
- Demco designs new Hub for modern learning
- New library and study centre for St John's College, Oxford
- Moving St Paul's Cathedral Library
- The new Charles Library at Temple University
- SCONUL Library Design Award and Showcase 2019
- A new cultural residence
- The habitable library
- Sustainable furnishings in Stockholm's Old Library
- Award-winning Canadian library buildings
- Edmonton in zinc
- The Library @ the Lightbox opens in Barnsley
- Design for learning in Australia, Singapore, the Netherlands and Kosovo
- New Rotadex Fineline mobile shelving for Taunton
- Hubland Library - a future that looks to the past
- No books, lots of ideas
- Calgary's new Central Library - form over function?
- Cape Town's flexible library
- Grünerløkka Library: a toolkit for localism
- SCONUL Library Design Awards shortlist announced
- ALIA Design Award winners
- Espoo wins Library of the Year Award
- Major library redesign for Curtin University, Perth
- Edwinstowe Library: learning from the community
- UCL unveils new Student Centre
- Library and cinema for West Norwood
- A fresh Eye for Suffolk
- West Sussex to invest in community hubs
- Stormen library in Bodø, Norway wins award
- Southwark opens new Grove Vale Library
- The library as a public space
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2018 News
- Taiwan's impressive libraries
- Merton's first sensory library
- Let's Make Makerspaces in Warwickshire
- Keeping pace with digital
- Refurbished library opens in Hexham
- Early Carnegie library to be restored
- Colliers Wood new library opens
- One stop library development begins for Midsomer Norton
- The extraordinary Stovner library: the shape of things to come
- Public Library of the Year Award
- Ten public libraries in Belgium
- Libraries need to evolve digitally
- Essex opens Chelmsford families hub
- Sutton Coldfield library reborn
- National Library of Latvia wins award
- Co-creating sixth form study space
- New wave of funding for Welsh libraries
- First library + art museum for Taiwan
- Mind-building in Finland
- Help build a library in Nepal
- Ireland's public libraries 2022
- Notts inspires!
- New library building for University of Limerick
- International Designing Libraries Conference
- York's new community hub
- Creating a circular shelving system
- Greener libraries worldwide
- How a corridor became a learning street
- Renovating a traditional library building
- A library under the stars
- Helsinki's library of the future
- The world's best new library 2018
- Plans released for the new Dublin City Library
- Modernising library spaces
- Kalk Library Cologne: engaging the community
- Christchurch central library opens
- Treehouse or amphitheatre?
- Inspiring learning: the Luxembourg Learning Centre
- Oodi library opens in Helsinki
- Creative destruction: facing up to the challenges of change
- Student Gateway refreshed at University of Sunderland
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2017 News
- Designing libraries in the 21st century: lessons for the UK
- Too many libraries?
- Families zone for Chelmsford Library
- New Royal Holloway library houses 400,000 books
- Inspirational refurbishment for Beeston Library
- The Book Stop pop-up library project
- Bisset Adams wins Thamesmead library contest
- China's 'giant eye' library opens
- Qatar's new National Library is open to everyone
- Designing academic space that matters
- Light and modern design for Marylebone Library
- Transforming the public library
- The opening of Leiden University's Asian Library
- £4.2m refit for Edmonton Green library
- Moving Qatar National Library into its new home
- Inside Halifax Central Library
- Final refurbishment phase complete for Teesside University
- A phenomenal first year for The Word
- Alvar Aalto library wins Finnish architecture prize
- SLA Inspiration Award - the winners!
- A bigger and better library for Battersea
- Ealing Central Library to relocate
- The library runway for kids
- 2017 Library Design Showcase
- SLA Inspiration Award shortlist announced
- Halifax opens its new library
- Designing the accessible library website
- Libraries and Makerspaces
- More from less in Newcastle relocation
- IFLA Green Library Award winner 2017
- Picture this mobile shelving
- Doncaster library plan approved
- Aberdeen hub gets go-ahead
- Revamp for Walsall Central Library
- The self-service device loan revolution
- Kingston invests in libraries
- Australian Library Design Awards 2017
- Awards for Dunfermline Carnegie Library
- Competition for Southmere library design
- Vibrant new community library for Nottingham
- £2.7m for libraries, museums and archives in Wales
- Storyhouse opens - cinema, theatre, library
- The best of Australian library design
- Designing the British Library extension
- Library design and the learning experience
- Ryerson University's new Student Learning Centre
- A library is a giant toy
- New library at the University of Nottingham officially opened
- Green light for Paisley's High Street library
- Culture Centre for Conwy
- Training rooms in libraries
- Refurbishment for the University of Salford library
- A collective living room
- The Connect Experience: Making Workspaces Work Harder Through Integrated Technology
- Wandsworth's libraries - bigger and better
- Shelving and storage at the new University of Birmingham library
- Heritage preserved in Dartford Library
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2016 News
- Library and campus for Malawi
- Winning designs for Shanghai's city library
- The Hive and Heritage Quay are winning libraries
- Inside the Design Library
- Libraries are the new tourist attractions
- A wider choice for self-service and book-sorting solutions
- Designing the Dubai British School
- Under one (or another) umbrella
- A modernist refurbishment at the University of Leeds
- The Word - design thinking for our time
- A green branch for Toronto Public Library
- A design-led study hub for Magdalen
- University of Birmingham's £44 million new library
- Transforming the Bodleian's Weston Library
- The Curve opens in Slough
- The future of library services in three visualisations
- Library and gallery for Haverfordwest
- A library for connection and creative discovery
- Wandsworth's libraries after outsourcing
- Libraries feature in RIBA awards
- University of Glasgow library refurbishment complete
- Unique infill project for the National Library of Wales
- The microlibrary made from ice cream buckets
- Crewe's £15m Lifestyle Centre creates waves
- Reshaping the future library
- Consultants appointed to design County Library
- An eye for China
- Next phase for Reading underway
- Modernisation at Ebbw Vale Library
- Hebburn Central a success
- An innovative library space for kids
- What will a library be tomorrow?
- Living in a material world
- IFLA Green Library Award winner announced
- SCONUL Design Awards shortlist announced
- School library design can improve education
- Arcadia gets the 'Manchester Look'
- SLA Inspiration Award open for entries
- Library building awards announced
- Lancaster's new shelving
- Visualising library enquiries - a graphic arts project
- £2.3m for Welsh libraries, museums and archives
- Architect Zaha Hadid dies
- Science Museum opens new Research Centre and Library
- New library for Holborn
- Integrated library, theatre and cinema for Chester
- A tale of two Sydneys
- Restoring the world's oldest library
- Idea Stores - still thriving
- Lancaster University Library remodelled
- IFLA Green Library Award 2016
- Dubai to build book-shaped library
- New library wing for Essex University
- Spring opening for Bicester's new library
- Storing a fine art collection
- The Core, Solihull - opening soon!
- David Cameron opens school library
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2015 News
- SCONUL 2016 Library Design Awards
- A space for reading
- Hull library transformation now complete
- Major upgrade for college library
- Post-occupancy evaluation of library buildings
- Warrington plans £5m heritage hub
- Library extension built from railway sleepers
- School library redesign wins readers
- What libraries should look like
- Scottish Poetry Library reopens
- Winners of the SLA Inspiration Award announced
- Library and cultural hub wins design award
- Mecanoo to lead renovation of New York Public Library
- Herning Public Library wins best renovation prize
- Edinburgh in for design award
- Willesden Green library opens
- New town centre library opens in Stafford
- Herefordshire Archive opens with new racking solution
- Calculating the growth of collections and spaces
- Library Design Showcase 2015
- The reading dome
- Post-war public library buildings listed by Historic England
- The best new public library in the world
- State-of-the-art medical library opens without books
- Scandinavia's largest library
- Leeds Laidlaw Library officially opens
- School library Inspiration Award 2015 shortlist announced
- The achievements of Australia's public libraries
- Libraries without walls: when students become the core design consideration
- New Plymouth Central Library
- A bright and happy library
- Public library with indoor garden
- Pork Pie library reopens
- Billingham Library gets building excellence award
- Canadian public library wins building award
- Rethinking the staff workplace
- Steel-clad library for Oxford college
- Fiction library for primary school
- The library on the beach
- Northants library opens in community hub in Towcester
- Library wins Development of the Year award
- Libraries as the 'third place'
- Reinventing the modern library
- Public Library of the Year Award launches
- China Centre gets new mobile shelving
- Refurbishment for French Institute
- Wakefield's dementia-friendly library
- Archive is a gateway to history
- Bodleian's Weston Library opens
- Library and community hub for South Tyneside
- The new libraries of Singapore
- Mapping mobile shelving in Liverpool
- The Word is out in South Shields
- A strategic vision for library and learning spaces
- Learning Spaces database released
- New library opens in Milton Keynes
- Barnsley's Central Library design unveiled
- Construction starts on new Engineering and Science Library
- School libraries as hubs of learning
- Design thinking toolkit for libraries
- Designing shelving for access
- Billingham library and customer service centre opens
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