Welcome to the 2024 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Like the profession itself, library facilities are in a ...

The city has moved one step closer to replacing the East Springfield Branch Library. Designs for a new building are complete. “We submitted the preliminary schematic and related documents last week to ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) selected seven winners of the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. The goal of the program is to recognize and ...

Plans are moving ahead for a new Helen M. Plum Memorial Library in Lombard. Architectural renderings and floor plans of the proposed $27.8 million building were shared Wednesday during a virtual ...

A floor plan is a two-dimensional drawing to scale that shows a room or building from above. Imagine looking down on a dollhouse without its roof. A floor plan is often used as a planning tool and it ...

Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased ...

Welcome to the 2022 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in inventive, interesting, and effective ways. This year’s ...

The $695,071 proposal would relocate and expand the first‑floor restrooms and Maker Space, add a janitor’s closet, and make the restrooms fully ADA‑compliant. The existing meeting room would also be ...

St. Paul officials on Monday released final building designs and floor plans for the Hamline Midway, Hayden Heights and Riverview libraries, saying they are responding to the public's call for ...

The second floor of the Smithtown Library’s main branch has reopened — 14 months after intense flooding devastated the facility, officials said. The branch on North Country Road reopened in May, but ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor is poised to get a new downtown library officials say will be even bigger and better now that it will be able to span two properties. City voters went to the polls Tuesday, ...