- 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
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- 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
- Bringing the Outside In - Where Nature Meets Design
- Director Daniela Hislop explains how The Design Concept is embracing biophilic design for library interiors
- 28 Jun 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
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- 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.
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- 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.