Intelligent Library Buildings

Abstract

Proceedings of the tenth seminar of the IFLA Section on Library Buildings and Equipment, held at the City Library of The Hague (Netherlands) on 24-29 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