PLANNING

This page includes specific sample plans for libraries, as well as comprehensive planning guides.

General Planning Guides

• How to Find, Select and Engage an Architect (Ontario Association of Architects, 2001) (PDF document)
• LAMA: Library Administration and Management Association
  
• Checklist of Publications (2002)
• Buildings and Equipment: Programs and Publications (2002)
  
• Library Improvement Planning Process (Lushington Associates, 2001)
• Library Space Planning Guide (Connecticut State Library, 2002) (PDF document)
• Library Space Planning Guide Worksheet (Connecticut State Library, 2002) (XLS document)
• Moving Library Collections: Planning Shifts of Library Collections (Shirien Chappell, University of Oregon Libraries, 2002)
• (Un)desiderata: 27 Snappy Rules for Good and Evil in Library Architecture (Fred Schlipf and John Moorman, 2002)
• Whole Building Design Guide (National Institute of Building Sciences, 2002)

Planning Guides for Specific Types of Libraries

• Designing a Fine Library (Kansas State Library and the Kansas Library Association, 2001)
• Designing Libraries (University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2005)
• A Guide for Public Library Buildings in New South Wales: People Places (State Library of New South Wales, 2000) (PDF document)
• Libris DESIGN (California Public Library Planners, 2004)
• Planning and Constructing Law School Buildings: Ten Basic Guidelines (John D. Edwards, Drake University Law School, 1998)
• Public Library Construction Process: From Problem Recognition to Ribbon Snipping (Fred Schlipf and John Moorman, 2002)
• Public Library Space Needs: A Planning Outline (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1998)
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Public Library Architecture (Fred Schlipf and John Moorman, 1998)
• Toolkit for Planning and Building Public Libraries (Utah State Library Division, 2004)
  

Sample Library Plans

Academic Libraries

• Cornell University Library: Library Annex Expansion Project (1999)

          Public Libraries

• 22 Recent & Enduring Design Trends in Ontario Public Libraries (ON, 2004) (PDF document)
• Chelsea District Library: Library Building Project (Michigan, 2004)
• Harrison Branch Library: Construction Project (Ohio, 2001)
• People Places-Case Studies (State Library of New South Wales, 2005)
• Viipuri Library: Restoration Project (Finland, 2004)
  

Library Building Consultants

• Library Building Consultants List (LAMA, a division of ALA, 2003)

The inclusion of a resource on this page does not imply a recommendation of it.

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