Building for the Future: National and Academic Libraries from Around the Globe: report on a conference held in The Hague 5-5 October 2007

摘要

Libraries are changing in the digital age as information increasingly comes in electronic form and the emphasis in libraries is placed on access to information and user support rather than on collection building, Such change undoubtedly impacts on the design of library buildings. Predictions about the demise of the physical library, however, seem unfounded and many exciting and innovative buildings have been designed in recent years. Indeed the need to create library buildings as meeting places for both academic and social purposes that people want to visit rather than have to visit has given library building design a positive fillip.