High Quality Design on a Low Budget : New Library Buildings. Proceedings of the Satellite Conference of the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section Making Ends Meet: High Quality Design on a Low Budget Held at Li Ka Shing Library, Singapore Management University, 15-16 August 2013.

Intro -- Contents -- About IFLA -- 1. Introduction to the Satellite Conference -- 2. Evolution and Transformation. Spaces, Services and Staircases -- 3. Financial and Cultural Crises. The Library's Response to Tough Times -- 4. Cents and Sensibility -- 5. Renovation, Renewal, and Rethinking. Turning Abandoned US Buildings into High-quality, Cost-effective Community Libraries -- 6. Budgetary Constraints No Excuse for Poor Design. Griffith Library (G11) Extension and GUMURRII Centre (Queensland, Australia) -- 7. Adaptive Re-use of Buildings for Library Purposes. Remaking an Old Underground Book Stack into a User Friendly Public Space at the Kungliga Biblioteket/National Library of Sweden -- 8. The End Justified the Means. Building Makerere University Library Extension with a Low Budget -- 9. Rethinking Library Space as an Information Commons. From Drawbacks to Solutions and Negotiations in between -- 10. Achieving Library Refurbishment. Get the Most out of Matched Funding and Careful Design Planning -- 11. Sustainable, Participatory and Low-cost. The Redesign Process of Hakunila Library -- 12. Economic Design of Libraries Based on Visionary Building Plans, Adaptive Architecture, Compact Storage, and Streamlining of Services -- 13. Corners. Designing Library Spaces for a New Generation of Users without Library Budget -- Contributors.

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