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March 17, 2008, 12:04 AM ET
Librarians Create a Guide for Library Design
The Association of College and Research Libraries and the Library Administration and Management Association have released a guide for architects and librarians who are planning new construction and renovations. The guide features information on standards, precedents, user studies, equipment, and resources on library design.
Susan Campbell, the library director at York College, told The Chronicle that librarians had formed a task force to create the guide because architects frequently contact organizations like ACRL to seek advice on designing libraries.
But the guide was not only intended to help architects. “While architects were the original impetus for the guide, the task-force members felt strongly that it also should target librarians and physical-plant managers facing first-time library building projects,” Ms. Campbell wrote in an e-mail message to The Chronicle.
The guide is in a wiki format, which means that anyone can add to it. A task force appointed by ACRL and LAMA will manage the page. “We resisted the librarians’ usual urge to provide an exhaustive bibliography and instead attempted to highlight the best sources we all knew in a number of broad categories we developed through interviews with architects,” Ms. Campbell wrote.
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