Intelligent Library Buildings

Abstract

Proceedings of the tenth seminar of the IFLA Section on Library Buildings and Equipment. The City Library of the Hague (Netherlands), Sunday 24 August 1997 to Friday 29 August 1997. Table of contents: Introduction / Marc Chauveinc, Anke van Kampen and Wim Renes -- Some thoughts on the design of major library buildings / Harry Faulkner-Brown -- The Central Library of the Hague in the most prominent place in the city / Wim Renes -- Is an intelligent building automatically a functional library? / Hanke Roos -- Intelligent buildings / Jacques Mol -- Die Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt-am-Main / Ingo Kolasa -- The new headquarters of the Venezuelan National Library / Elvira Muñoz-Gimenez -- Developing a digital library / Hans Geleijnse -- The Tilburg digital library / Hans Geleijnse -- Rotterdam Library past 2000 / Frans Meijer -- The San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), new Main Library : a case study / Kenneth E. Dowlin -- A beautiful, useful machine for service : the Denver Public Library / Rick J. Ashton -- The Science, Industry and Business Library presentation at the City Library / Paul LeClerc -- The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library as a smart building / David Walker -- The Adsetts Learning Centre, Sheffield Hallam University / Graham Bulpitt -- The Bibliothèque Nationale de France : a new library with a new building, a new network and a new computer system / Jean-Marc Czaplinski