Dear All,
I had some wonderful response to my question about school library
design. Thank you all for being so helpful.
I compiled the responses I received and they are listed below.=20
Regards,
Candace Aiani, Librarian
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Taipei American School
800 Chung Shan N. Rd., Section 6
Shihlin District
Taipei, Taiwan 11135
R.O.C.
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Phone: (886-2) 2873-9900 #241
Fax: (886-2) 2873-1641
Email: aianic@tas.edu.tw
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The secret=20
is to be very clear in your own mind as to the pedagogical issues that=20
should drive the design and find an architect that is willing to listen.
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If you can afford consultants from abroad, I would recommend Carolyn=20
Markuson and Rolf Erikson. Both have worked as school librarians; =20
Carolyn was also a district supervisor at one point in her career. She=20
has been a freelance consultant for many years and has worked with Rolf=20
on a number of design projects. They have authored a book on library=20
design, published by ALA. <http://bibliotechcorp.com/intro.html> They=20
might be able to advise from afar if you can't afford to get them to=20
visit the site...
Agreed: you want someone who knows what libraries are all about. Among=20
my experiences - an architect who was astounded to discover that we=20
allowed students actually to work in the library and (even worse?) to=20
touch the books, he thought we should be a closed access library (his=20
solution to our space problems); and an architect whose actuality=20
differed from the plan, with shelves far too close together - (his=20
solution? he recommended a one-way system...).
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Congratulations and good luck. This will be a fun process, and a
challenging one. I highly recommend Pauline Anderson's 1990 title,
Designing School Library Media Facilities. She was the director at
Choate Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut for many years, and a
facilities design consultant. I worked with her in the late 80's - in
fact the Building program we wrote for the Episcopal High School in
Houston is included in the book. I also took her course on how to write
a building program, and find the process incredibly helpful as you think
through what you need and want and how the whole might work best.
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I would strongly recommend Rolf Erickson <rerikson@minuteman.org>. I
have worked with him on a facilities project for an overseas school
before and found his work excellent.
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