Designing Library Facilities for a High‐Tech Future

Abstract

Typically, library building projects are undertaken to accommodate a library's needs for the foreseeable twenty years or more. With major changes in information technologies occurring at intervals of less than five years, it should be assumed, within its twenty‐plus years of initial service, that a library building will have to accommodate a series of changes in order to support currently unknown technologies. Issues related to the development of library facilities that will meet current and future needs are discussed by three prominent consultants and representatives of two vendors: Wilson M. Stahl, James J. Michael (Data Research Associates), Rick Richmond, Gene Robinson (CLSI), and James E. Rush.

Citation

Drabenstott, J., Stahl, W.M., Michael, J.J., Richmond, R., Robinson, G. and Rush, J.E. (1987), "Designing Library Facilities for a High‐Tech Future", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 5 No. 4, pp. 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047712