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How do you use your local library? Does it arrive at your door on the back of an elephant? Can it float down the river to you? Or does it occupy a phone booth by the side of the road? Public libraries are a cornerstone of modern civilization, yet like the books in them, libraries face an uncertain future in an increasingly digital world. Undaunted, librarians around the globe are thinking up astonishing ways of reaching those in reading need, whether by bike in Chicago, boat in Laos, or donkey in Colombia. Improbable Libraries showcases a wide range of unforgettable, never-before-seen images and interviews with librarians who are overcoming geographic, economic, and political difficulties to bring the written word to an eager audience. Alex Johnson charts the changing face of library architecture, as temporary pop-ups rub shoulders with monumental brick-and-mortar structures, and many libraries expand their mission to function as true community centers. To take just one example: the open-air Garden Library in Tel Aviv, located in a park near the city's main bus station, supports asylum seekers and migrant workers with a stock of 3,500 volumes in sixteen different languages. Beautifully illustrated with nearly two hundred and fifty color photographs, Improbable Libraries offers a breathtaking tour of the places that bring us together and provide education, entertainment, culture, and so much more. From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, the communal book revolution means you'll never be far from the perfect next read.

Public buildings --- Documentation and information --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Bibliobus --- Miscellanées --- Architecture --- public spaces --- reading --- libraries [rooms] --- architecture [discipline] --- interactive art --- reading [activity] --- Miscellanées. --- Architecture. --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Miscellanées.

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Library planning and design --- libraries [buildings] --- architecture [discipline] --- United States --- Library buildings --- Library architecture --- Libraries --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Design and construction. --- Remodeling --- Space utilization --- Aménagement --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Aménagement --- United States of America

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This book evaluates how we experience and understand buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background. With reference to Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library, the book illustrates a range of different methods available through its application to the building. By seeing such a variety of different research methods applied to one setting, it provides the opportunity for researchers to understand how tools can highlight various aspects of a building and how those different methods can augment, or complement, each other. Unique to this book are contributions from internationally renowned academics from fields including architecture, ethnography, architectural criticism, phenomenology, sociology, environmental psychology and cognitive science, all of which are united by a single, real-world application, the Seattle Central Library. This book will be of interest to architects and students of architecture as well as disciplines such as ethnography, sociology, environmental psychology, and cognitive science that have an interest in applying research methods to the built environment.

Public libraries --- Library architecture --- Architecture --- Bibliothèques publiques --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Philosophy --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect psychologique --- Seattle Central Library --- Seattle (Wash.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Constructions --- Library planning and design --- libraries [buildings] --- public libraries [buildings] --- Seattle --- Philosophie. --- Aspect psychologique. --- Constructions. --- Seattle [Washington] --- Bibliothèques publiques --- Bibliothèques (constructions)

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Equipements publics en profonde mutation, les bibliothèques territoriales ou universitaires, avec l'offre documentaire électronique et des services diversifiés, sont toujours plus engagées dans une course à l'évolution. L'ouvrage aborde la question sous l'angle des services aux publics et des aménagements d'espaces correspondants. Le CD-ROM présente les fiches techniques de 47 opérations réalisées.

Library planning and design --- Library architecture --- Library buildings --- Library planning --- Academic libraries --- Public libraries --- Architecture des bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (Edifices) --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothèques publiques --- Design and construction --- Planification --- Conception et construction --- Conception et contruction --- Libraries --- Facility Design and Construction --- Bibliothèques (Édifices) --- Architecture. --- Planification. --- Conception et construction. --- Architecture des bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques (Edifices) --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothèques publiques --- Library architecture. --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Space utilization --- Aménagement --- Library buildings. --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Design and construction. --- Ghent University, Booktower.

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"In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library's early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution's first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organization ensconced in two rooms in downtown LA into one of the largest public library systems in the United State, with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centerpiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building's sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library's murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. "A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon," wrote Alexander, a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue's architectural gem. Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century and illuminates the formation of an indispensable modern public institution: the American public library"--Amazon.com.

Library planning and design --- libraries [buildings] --- architectural history --- public libraries [institutions] --- Public buildings --- Los Angeles --- Library buildings --- Library architecture --- Public libraries --- 727.8 --- County libraries --- Libraries, County --- Libraries --- Buildings, Library --- History --- Bibliotheekgebouwen --- Bibliotheken (architectuur) --- Buildings --- Los Angeles Public Library. --- Los Angeles Central Library --- Los Angeles Public Library --- History. --- Architecture --- Los Angeles [California] --- Bibliothèques (constructions) --- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (1869-1924) --- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, --- Library architecture. --- Library buildings. --- Public libraries. --- California --- Bibliothèques (constructions)