New libraries in old buildings : creative reuse / edited on behalf of IFLA by Petra Hauke, Karen Latimer and Robert Niess

Includes bibliographical references

Exceptional libraries and distinctive architecture: celebrating reuse / Robert Niess -- Using historic buildings to house new libraries: prerequisites and conditions for successful revival / Santi Romero -- The reuse of buildings: libraries behaving sustainably / Karen Latimer -- Patyegarang place with a new library and pavilion revitalizing a hospital for Sydney's inner west community / Kim Small ; Caroline McLeod -- A fire hall reused for Windsor Public Library's John Muir branch in Ontario, Canada / Rebekah Mayer -- Cultural reconstruction of a traditional Chinese courtyard house into the Souchengli neighbourhood library / Yang Li -- Converting and extending a historic fire station into a library in Berlin, Germany / Robert Niess ; Jürgen Radzkowski -- Building community through transforming 17th century barns in Kirchzarten, Germany / Petra Süppel ; Willi Sutter ; Angelika Manz -- The Mössingen library emerges from the Pausa Tonnenhalle in Germany / Michael B. Frank ; Canan Kadi -- Rehabilitating a textile plant for Barcelona's Les Corts neighbourhood library / Ricard Mercadé Rogel ; Aurora Fernández Grané ; Jordi Gual Nevado -- Repurposing a grocery store for the Joutsa public library in Finland / Nina Kuikka -- Creating a library from a locomotive shed in Tilburg, the Netherlands / Jeske Boemaars -- Converting the Utrecht post office into the Neude library / Jan van Grunsven ; Bart Kellerhuis ; Ton van Vlimmeren -- The conversion of a science institute to a faculty library in Ghent, Belgium / Paul Buschmann ; Anne-Lise Van der Meulen ; Raf Van Den Berghe -- A cattle market becomes a university library in Germany / Katharina Regulski -- Integrating new functions into the historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany / Michael Knoche ; Hilde Barz-Malfatti ; Karl-Heinz Schmitz -- From locomotives to libraries at Wildau Technical University, Germany / Robert Niess ; Frank Seeliger -- Reviving the hexagon for the university library on the Luminy campus of Aix-Marseille University / Samuel Lespets ; Rémy Marciano -- The American University of Paris library in the student life and learning commons / Jorge F. Sosa ; Lia Kiladis -- A slaughterhouse pavillion becomes an architectural library in Rome / Anna Raimondi -- A library hovering in the chapel in Bogota, Colombia / Gabriella Karl-Johnson -- Transforming a match factory into the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania / Tara Murray Grove -- Sustainability and reusing buildings for libraries: a review of selected documents / Cletus D. Kuunifaa

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.

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