- Designing the online experience
- How can a library catalogue online be designed differently? How do you build different ways of accessing the collection both for online and onsite experiences?
- 15 Jul 2020
Library futures
As libraries become multi-media spaces and centres of innovation we look at some current ideas about the future of libraries and the impact of technology.
Magic mushrooms artwork on the ceiling of Dokk1, Aarhus
- Designing libraries in the 21st century
- This important new report by Gemma John is a study of new libraries across Europe and North America and what design means for both user and staff behaviour
- 20 Jan 2017
- What will a library be tomorrow?
- A hybrid, multimedia space for knowledge access and activation - as has been the case for much of its history.
- 31 May 2016
- Living in a material world
- Ravensbourne, a specialist arts and design institution, has officially launched the first partnership materials library in the country.
- 25 May 2016
- Visualising library enquiries
- Wissenskosmos is a public real-time visualisation of enquiry activities inside the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.
- 04 Apr 2016
- What libraries should look like
- Is Scandinavia setting the trend? A story from Germany traces the influence of new thinking about the future of libraries and how they are changing lives.
- 05 Nov 2015
- Rethinking the staff workplace
- Ensuring that libraries are also great places for staff to work in begins with understanding how libraries are changing to address new user needs.
- 08 Jun 2015
- Libraries as the 'third place'
- A Guardian feature on France's public libraries describes the changing social role of libraries as the 'third place' next to home and workplace.
- 04 May 2015
- Design thinking toolkit for libraries
- A new Design Thinking Toolkit for Libraries has been published and is free to download and use. It puts people and ideas at the centre of its methodology.
- 14 Jan 2015