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Historically, library was a private building dedicated to an individual, monastery or college. Today, the library is electonic and virtual- a building which loosely and casually contains the diverse tentacles of knowledge. Now knowledge is virtually everywhere; it has broken free of the constraint of buildings. If a library is repository of knowledge, this is now just one of its functions. The library's prime function is now making that knowledge available and encouraging exchange and reflection upon it.

The more the library diffuses under the influence of the computer, the more important become the architectural anchors of the building type. Important as the electronic screens of the library have become, there is no denying the social function of the library to a sense of identity, community and nationahood.

NZ suburban libraries have struggled to operate its contemporary function; the idea that a library is more than a repository of books and computers.

This thesis will examine the possibilities for suburban libraries, as social symbol that as a centre of community interaction and as a place to celebrate learning. I will develop the possibilities in architecture which is simultaneously alone and part of a community and investigate the possibilities in space for permanent and temporary collections everyday(as a market places for ideas).

The will be an emphasis on connection between athenaeum and library and a new form of library associated with social interaction.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Research

These are some topics that can be used for my thesis from a book called 'The New Downtown Library' by Shannon Mattern

1.The Need For a New Library

2. The public Library, Urban Sprawl and the Information Age

-Library as Community centre

-Library in urban revitalisation (easily accessible from public transportation)

-eg. Brookly Visual & Performing Art library's programmatic elements: Public & congregation space on the ground floor, media space in the middle, and administrative space at the top

-Library as Civic Icon: lot of many countries are building New international or public Libraries in large scale with new programs and forms, then what about dead suburban ones? They need to be developed and built with new system too.

3. Form for Function

-The Architecture of New Libraries with a physical and programmatic link to the residential neighborhoods to the city

-Logic of New Form: Seattle library;
the 5 platform, each a programmatic cluster that is architecturally defined and equipped for maximum, dedicated performance. Each platform is designed for a unique purpose, they are different in size, density, and opacity. The in-between spaces are like trading floors where librarians inform and stimulate, where the inferface between the different platforms is organised- space for work, interaction, and play (and reading)

4. Reinventing the Public Square; libraries and nonmedia programming

- Library with outdoor activities?

- Library with Connection to the outdoor house shops?

-Mixed use public space: All things to all people?

5. Open stacks; negotiating space for media

-reading room: "devise a strategy where the books are given their place, are given their repectful environment, are given their value, but are also contained" so that space is also reserved for nonbook media and public activities.

-Balancing Analog and Digital

6. Away from the Desk

- New modes of librarianship; some librarians fitted with headsets
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