Library Buildings today

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Library Buildings today
in St Petersburg 14. 15. 4. 2003 Kari Lämsä
kari.lamsa_at_hel.fi Cable Book Library Helsinki
City Library http//www.lasipalatsi.fi/karilam/s
tpetersburg/
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Changing Library
trends and visions for future library

• Model of the new Central Libray of TurinPicture
  from Paolo Messinas presentation in A Space for
  the Future Conference, Helsinki 2002
  http//www.lib.hel.fi/conf02/

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• New Communitieswho they are, what they want?
• Libraries as City Spaceshub of information,
  culture and meeting
• Changing customerschanging needs, changing
  behaviour
• Premises and Technique lively, communicative,
  intelligent
• Information and Materials more complicated,
  expansive
• Consultants of Information
• Competencies for future

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New Communities

• new forms
• virtual communities
• new way of communicate
• 24 h available
• on-line
• real-time
• new networks
• need new space

Future Library Article Need for new community? /
Architect Tuomas Toivonen http//www.aula.cc/pro
jects/futurelibrary/newcommunity.htm
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Libraries as City Spaces

• as meeting place
• free access
• equality
• free of charge
• in urban structure
• offer active environment
• places of participation and influencing
• culture's amusement parks ?

Virtual Impact on the Physical Library /
Bertelsmann Stiftung http//www.bertelsmann-stift
ung.de/documents/Virtual_Impact_engl.pdf
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Changing customers

• changes in communication
• members of the information society
• new demands
• tailored services
• experience travellers
• future needs

Your Ideas on the Library's Future? / New Central
Library of Minneapolis http//www.mpls.lib.mn.us/
ncl_comments.asp
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Premises and Technique versatile and combined
premises

• mobile components
• merge services
• comprehensive networks
• 24/7/356 automation

The lobby of Glass Palace changes to the
Internet-Cafe of Cable Book Library.
http//www.lasipalatsi.fi/index_en.html
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Premises and Technique convertible signs

• various languages
• digital info walls
• mobile phone compasses
• hologram signs
• avatar guides

Haagin kaupunginkirjaston seinille projisoitavat
valo-opasteet
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Premises and Technique new mobile libraries

• movable information station
• personal services
• wireless connections
• ask anything, anyhow

IGS - Information Gas Station / Project Manager
Jouni Juntumaa http//igs.kirjastot.fi/luento/eng
lish/iGSHelsingor.ppt
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Premises and Technique new mobile libraries

• Kontti container Concept of movable library
  services. By finnish desing students Mikko
  Aarras, Jussi Hiltunen, Sami Laine, Marjukka
  Mäkelä, Jani-Petri Voutilainen
• http//www.aula.cc/projects/futurelibrary/kontti.h
  tml

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Premises and Technique work modules, learning
environments

• In future customers will build themselves a
  pleasant work environment.
• Workspace / University of Århus Department of
  Computer Sciencehttp//www.daimi.au.dk/workspace/
  index.htm

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Premises and Technique intelligent buildings

• Earthquake and Volcano simulator in Singapore
  City Library

Illustration of the Fugitive environment. Simon
Penny, Carnegie Mellon University
Roomware and Intelligent Buildings / University
of Århus http//www.daimi.au.dk/workspace/site/con
tent/heading_07/papers/Roomware.pdf
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Premises and Technique green libraries

• Drawing of Turin Centre Library. Glass walls will
  be equipped with solar cells.

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Information and Materials

• löydettävissä
• available
• trustworthy
• formats and standards
• tailored information
• kirjoilla ei hätää

High Quality Information For Everyone And What It
Costs / Bielefeld 2002 Conference
http//www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2002conf/index.htm
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Information and Materials Jan Strang "Book
killer machine comes

• These will pass along with digital works
• serial publications that take a lot of space
• space-taking reference books or reference books
  with small circulation
• scientific works in small editions
• writings in which new technique brings essential
  additional features (interactivity, multimedia
  and so on).

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Information and Materials Jan Strang "Book
killer machine comes

• These will get along with digital works
• writings with large editions
• cheap paperbacks and kiosk literature
• books that are to be read from one cover to
  another especially fiction
• writings that require a large format or a
  diverging form, for example picture books and
  maps
• children's books

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Consultants of Information

• teaching
• guiding
• interviewing
• discussing
• evaluating

Competencies needed by Public Library staff /
Bertelsmann Stiftunghttp//www.bertelsmann-stiftu
ng.de/documents/Competencies.pdf
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Consultants of Information
In the National Library of Canada has been made a
research in which Competencies required in
library work

• 1.     Communication Competencies
• 2.     Information Technology Competencies
• 3.     Change Competencies
• 4.     Organizational Competencies
• 5.     Problem-Solving Competencies
• 6.    Team Work Competencies
• 7.    Self-Management Competencies
• 8.    Corporate Competencies
• 9.    Service Competencies
• 10.  Management Competencies People Skills
• 11.  Management Competencies Process and
  Organizational Skills
• 12.  System Competencies

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• What will librarians be like in 2150?

Very busy, helpful, friendly, and quite possibly
aliens.Elizabeth, aged 11 Libraries of the
future / Library of Birmingham http//hosted.ukol
n.ac.uk/stories/gallery/competitions/library/
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Five new librariesAmsterdam, Vienna, Turin,
Seattle, Oslo

• locationpurpose for milieu and city structure,
  accessibility
• architectureflexibility, position in cityscape,
  recognizable
• capacity and resourcesrooms, visitors, opening
  hours, financing
• materialscollections, formats, classification
• equipmentswork stations, automation, networks
• distinctions special customer groups,
  co-operation, innovations

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Amsterdam

• Inhabitants 725.000, 1.000.000 living in the
  near environment, 40 immigrants
• Public Library Structure Central Library, six
  region libraries, 21 district libraries
• Visitors 3 500 000 / year
• Human Resources 300 employees, 20 immigrants

Hans van Velzen New Central Library for
Amsterdam http//www.ifla.org/VII/rt3/news/amster
dam.htm
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Amsterdam New Library

• location in centrum
• surface area 30 000 m²
• 1250 study places. Six hundred with internet
• auditorium 300 seats
• opening 84 h/week, 12 h/day
• building budget 74 000 000

Suunnitelma Amsterdamin rautatieaseman viereen
rakennettavasta alueesta, johon uusi kirjasto
tulee
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The four main tasks of the new Central Library
By Hans van Velzen, Director of Amsterdam Public
Library

• 1. Information Center - free access to
  information
• BOOKS, CD-ROM's, CD's, DVDs, INTERNET et cetera
• Place to study
• Trained staff
• 2. Cultural Center - meeting other cultures
• Multi cultural in every aspect
• Exhibitions
• Large world music collection
• Theatre, 300 seats
• fully equipped

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The four main tasks of the new Central Library
By Hans van Velzen, Director of Amsterdam Public
Library

• 3. Educational Center - learning, your whole life
  
• Cooperation with schools and universities
• Study facilities and support
• Instruction room
• AdamNet
• 4. Meeting point for people - connecting people
• Multi cultural in every aspect Exhibitions
• Large world music collection
• Theatre, 300 seats
• fully equipped

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General demands for a new central library By
Hans van Velzen, Director of Amsterdam Public
Library

• Easy to reach for users
• Must be recognized as a Public Library on first
  sight
• Attractive, visible in direct environment
• Easy to manage and easy to work in
• Must have state of the art technology and other
  facilities
• Enough space for all functions

Hans van Velzen Library for the future
http//www.oba.nl/library_future/future.htm
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Vienna

• Inhabitants 1 626 000
• Public Library Structure 52 branch libraries,
  2 bookmobile
• Visitors 983 000 / year
• Human Resources 285 employees

Main City Library Vienna By Alfred Pfoser / A
Space for the Future Conference
http//www.lib.hel.fi/conf02/wien.htm
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Vienna New Library

• location in liikenteen solmukohdassa
• surface area 6 085 m²
• Collection 300 000 (printed 240 000, multimedia
  60 000)
• 150 study places
• 130 work stations for customers
• auditorium 300 seats
• opening 44 h / week
• building budget 26 000 000

Läpileikkaus metroaseman päälle rakennettavasta
Wienin pääkirjastosta
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The Library as a new City symbol supports By
Alfred Pfoser, director of the City Library Vienna

• Higher pedestrian frequency during the day
• Higher standard of security
• Simulations for private investments
• A new Gürtell marketing
• conviviality of different social milieus and
  cultural practises
• Fresh impetus for integration of immigrants

Kuvia Viennan uudesta pääkirjastosta by Architect
Ernst Mayr http//www.cattec.at/galerie/bibl.htm
l
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Turin New Library

• Inhabitants 899 806, immigrants from non-EU
  countries about 40 000
• Public Library Structure main library, music
  library, 14 branch libraries
• Location in centrum
• Gross surface area 27 000 m²
• Collection 1 000 000 documents
• 1 500 study places
• 900 m2 internet-café
• 5000 visitors per day

Turin Central City Library http//www.oct.torino.i
t/biblioteca/eng/index2.htm
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The New Central Library designed to offer all
the opportunities of modern public libraryBy
Library Director Paolo Messina, Turin City Library

• A library for everyone
• To be informed and up to date
• To meet people and communicate in
• Library completed wired
• Reading tables with data and power connections
• Furniture and fittings familiar to users of
  different cultural origins
• Layout and shelving suitable for disable people

Paolo Messina The Building Changes the Image of
the Library / A Space for the Future
Conference http//www.lib.hel.fi/conf02/messina.ht
m
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Seattle New Library

• Inhabitants 563 000
• Public Library Structure main library, 27
  branch libraries, bookmobiles
• Location in centrum
• Surface area 33 700 m²
• Collection 1 400 000
• 400 work stations for customers
• Building budget 165 500 000

Building a New Central Library http//www.spl.org/
lfa/central/buildinganewcentral.html
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Seattle Five Platforms

• Fifth platform roof terrace, library
  headquarters, periodicals
• Fourth platform main collection, reading room
• Third platformComputer training, electronics
  (Internet access, CD-ROMs and e-books) and
  "assembly" - the auditorium and meeting rooms.
• Second platform the "store" - popular fiction,
  and library staff areas.
• First platform Parking and library support
  areas, topped by the children's library.

Central Library Design Images http//www.spl.org/l
fa/central/design.html
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Seattle Book Spiral
The main collection be organized into a
continuous spiral that is the equivalent of three
levels of the building.
Spiral Mockup Presentation by LMN
Architects http//www.spl.org/lfa/central/spiralpr
esentation.pdf
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Seattle Book Spiral

• It allows collections to grow at unpredicted
  rates without pushing books from one area to
  another, or moving "departments" as has occurred
  in the current library.
• It allows the entire non-fiction main collection
  (the full scope of the Dewey run - 000 to 999) to
  be located sequentially.
• It allows staff members who normally perform
  redundant tasks on every floor, to be much more
  efficient with access to multiple floors of
  books.
• It allows books that are associated with more
  than one department to have relationships and
  connections to all departments where they are
  relevant.

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Oslo New Library

• Inhabitants 507 000
• Public Library Structure main library, 13
  branch libraries, 2 bookmobile
• Location in centrum
• Surface area 20 000 m²
• building budget 440 000 000

• The New Oslo Public Library
• http//ragnar.deich.folkebibl.no/nyedeich/english/
  

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The modern public library mustBy Liv Sæteren,
Director Oslo Public Library

• Offer ample possibilities for collecting and
  processing knowledge and information
• Make the necessary facilities, resources and
  information accessible to groups and individuals,
  and act as gateway to other services and sources
• Provide a stimulating arena for meeting, working
  and learning a laboratory for creative teamwork
  and dialogue
• Function as meeting place for integration and
  diversity, and be a literary venue in the capital
  city
• Be an important node within the citys cultural
  life and network of knowledge

Liv Saeteren The Public Library as a Center for
Learning / Bielefeld 2002 Conference
http//www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2002conf/lectures/
Saeteren.pdf
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Libraries 2040

• The Brabant LibraryThe Brabant Library is a
  design by architect Winy Maas. It is part of
  Bibliotheken 2040 project by the Netherlands
  Association of Public Libraries.
• In this 230-meter tall metalibrary there is
  room for about 5 million books (17 kilometers of
  bookshelves), thousands of magazines, terminals,
  reading/studying rooms, (Internet) cafés, a
  theatre, etc. Next to traditional lifts and
  staircases, there will be about 800 glass study
  booths that move vertically as well as
  horizontally, on the outside and on the inside.
  This makes it possible to navigate the whole
  collection from ones own comfortable, private
  booth, in whatever way or order one likes.
  Other target groups can be serviced by furnishing
  some of the booths as meeting kiosks or mini
  lounges. A navigation system would prevent
  collisions.
• Rob Bruijnzeels Libraries 2040
• http//www.splq.info/issues/vol35_4/02.htm