library buildings

Provides hundreds of tips and strategies, many of them environmentally friendly, for running a library on a tight budget, with tips on using volunteers, finding free materials, fixing structural problems, repurposing, and more.

Identifies the people to involve and the issues that should be considered when planning new or remodeled facilities for school library media and technology centers.

"Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the . . . role that libraries play in modern American culture"--OCLC.

This book focuses on planning contemporary school library spaces with user-based design strategies.

"To keep school libraries relevant, their physical spaces need to be reinvented to mirror 21st-century learning models. This book will enable everyone from school librarians and principals to district-level administrators, architects, and interior planners of school library spaces to reconceptualize school libraries"--Provided by publisher.

A library interior design guide for architects, designers, and library planners that addresses the functionality needs of staff and design appeal for different age groups, covering signage, traffic, furnishings, materials, colors, lighting, and acoustics.

ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the labyrinth" for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different world, compete for their lives, combating not only each other but also a monster called the Karanodon. The earthly representative is Dr. Steven Swain, chosen for his courage in successfully fighting off a gang of thugs who invade his operating room. Unfortunately, Swain happens to be holding Holly, his plucky little daughter, at the moment he's transported into the labyrinth, so she goes with him. The most devilish trick the "sponsors" provide is an unremovable digital bracelet, whose face shows how many opponents remain, and will commence a deadly 15-minute countdown should its wearer manage to escape the library's electrified confines.

Contains a collection of architectural photographs of some of the world's most historic libraries representing twelve countries including the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, and the Vatican Library in Rome, Italy.

An intergalactic contest, the Presidian, is held once every thousand (Earth) years. This time it's taking place on Earth, and seven contestants from across the universe--including Dr. Stephen Swain, our human hero--have been teleported into New York Public Library, where they will hunt one another until only one remains alive.