Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

As the transformation of libraries continues, it follows that the physical structure would have to transform as well to support changes in services, missions, and audiences. The 2012 Library Design ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

Around the turn of the 20 th century—a golden age for libraries in America—the Snead Bookshelf Company of Louisville, Ky., developed a new system for large-stack library shelving. Snead’s multifloor ...

This article was published 06/05/2019 (2593 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. A new home for public learning is taking a page from the former community of Rooster Town and ...

University of Cambridge academic James W. P. Campbell and Will Pryce, the award winning architectural photographer, have spent the last three years visiting 84 libraries in 21 countries, compiling a ...