Are We Throwing out the Books with the Bathwater?: Dilemmas over New Directions in Library Design.
The growing popularity of digital media has led to a fundamental re-evaluation of the role of libraries as they strive to maintain their relevance to their patrons' changing needs. This is having a significant impact on their design and space use requirements, including a reduction in the areas dedi...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 1 - 11 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2017
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