Related design sites and image galleries

National and international websites, online information sources and image galleries featuring library buildings and library design examples.

IFLA LBES Inspiring Libraries: IFLA Instagram showcase of inspiring libraries because they're librarians and architects too with a passion for library design and technology.

37 modern libraries from around the world: From Singapore to Finland, Scotland to China. Blog with photos and official links. Updated 2017.

1001 libraries to see before you die: An online initiative from IFLA Public Libraries Section aims to bring together best practice examples of public library buildings and spaces from around the world. It will also include links to relevant websites and other resources.

Architectural Record: Building Types Study: Libraries: Architectural Record has long produced in-depth analyses of a particular building type, with photos, drawings, specifications, descriptions, and design solutions.

The Best Libraries in the World: Nice enthusiastic image gallery of the 'best' 35 libraries, a blog post from The Best Colleges.

Carnegie libraries: Wikipedia provides a useful history of Carnegie libraries and links to further information.

JISC InfoNet's photo albums on flickr: Thousands of categorised images of institutions and learning spaces.

Libraries architecture and design: Current and archive collection of library architectural and interior design features from DeZeen magazine.

Librarybuildings.info: European database presenting the best of new library buildings, created by NAPLE.

Library Buildings in Europe: The LIBER Architecture Group has developed a database of new library buildings browsable by country, with specifications, plans and images.

Library Planet: A crowdsourced travel guide to libraries across the world worth visiting.

Library Ranking Europe: LRE visits, observes and ranks European public libraries from a customer perspective. The method is mystery shopping. The goal is to obtain a higher quality of services.

Public Library Buildings (Ireland): Database and image gallery of library building and design projects in Ireland.

Nine stunning contemporary libraries: A short survey by the BBC.

Web Urbanist: 14 Marvelous Modern Libraries: Image gallery.

Web Urbanist: 15 Dazzling Library Designs: More images.

What do Spain's public libraries look like?: Architecture and Libraries is a website offered by Spain's Ministry of Culture that allows you to take a virtual tour of Spanish public libraries, inside and out.

And in Barcelona?: Barcelona has its own virtual library network which is gradually adding PDFs of library architectural images and plans to individual records.