Yu Pik Ki Peggy. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leave [55]). / Synopsis / Existing State / Chapter 1 --- program brief / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- background --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Client Profile --- p.3-5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Program Requirements of Hong Kong Central Library --- p.6-10 / Chapter 2 --- Site Analysis / Chapter 2.1 --- Site Selection --- p.11-15 / Chapter 2.2 --- Site background --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Physical Conditions --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Site Context --- p.18-19 / Chapter 2.5 --- Site Information --- p.20-24 / Chapter 2.6 --- Site Analysis Conclusion --- p.25-26 / Future state / Chapter 3 --- design brief / Chapter 3.1 --- Mission Statement --- p.27-28 / Chapter 3.2 --- Outline of Planning Facilities --- p.29-30 / Chapter 3.3 --- Planning Strategy --- p.31 / Chapter 3.4 --- Concepts --- p.32-33 / Chapter 4 --- Conclusion / Appendix / Chapter 5 --- Precedent studies / Chapter 5.1 --- Cranfield University Library --- p.35 / Chapter 5.2 --- "Central Library, Phoenix" --- p.36 / Chapter 5.3 --- "Library and art gallery, France" --- p.37 / Chapter 5.4 --- "Pompidou Center, Paris, France" --- p.38 / Chapter 6 --- Research / Chapter 6.1 --- Library Planning & Organization --- p.39-40 / Chapter 6.2 --- Operations Pattern in Library --- p.41 / Chapter 6.3 --- Automatic Conveyance System --- p.42 / Chapter 6.4 --- Other Design Considerations --- p.43-46 / Chapter 6.5 --- Climatic Control --- p.47 / design / Chapter 7 --- Preliminary Design / Chapter 7.1 --- Site Plan --- p.48 / Chapter 7.2 --- Site Section --- p.49 / Chapter 7.3 --- Section --- p.50 / Chapter 7.4 --- Ground Level --- p.51 / Chapter 7.5 --- Information Center --- p.52 / Chapter 7.6 --- Library Services --- p.53 / Chapter 7.7 --- Open Stacks --- p.54 / Acknowledgments / Biblography

Tsang Chun Man. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." / Chapter 00 --- Background --- p.01 / Chapter 01 --- Theoretical Research --- p.02-47 / Chapter 01.1 --- Reading Research & Quotations --- p.02-03 / Chapter 01.2 --- Observations in Hong Kong --- p.04-05 / Chapter 01.3 --- Library Research / Chapter 01.3.1 --- Library Development Time-Line --- p.06-11 / Chapter 01.3.2 --- Precedent Studies --- p.12-33 / Chapter 01.3.3 --- HK Library Studies --- p.34-39 / Chapter 01.4 --- Popular Reading Space --- p.40-47 / Chapter 02 --- Thesis Design Studies --- p.48-70 / Chapter 02.1 --- Design Intention --- p.48 / Chapter 02.2 --- Site Conditions --- p.49-53 / Chapter 02.3 --- Design Proposal / Chapter 02.3.1 --- Programmatic Studies --- p.54-55 / Chapter 02.3.2 --- Conceptual Studies --- p.56-60 / Chapter 02.3.3 --- Building Studies --- p.61-66 / Chapter 02.3.4 --- Furniture Concept --- p.67-70 / Chapter 03 --- Presentation Model --- p.71-77 / Chapter 03.1 --- Model Photo --- p.71-76 / Chapter 03.2 --- CD-ROM --- p.77 / Chapter - --- Quotations from Reference Reading / Chapter - --- Power-point Presentation

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-213). Also available online.

D.Litt. et Phil. (Library and Information Science) / Since the first library building was built in 1900 at the University of Stellenbosch no scientific study of library buildings as seen from the viewpoint of the librarian in the RSA has been done. No South African criteria for libraries at tertiary institutions exist, but SAPSE building norms have been available since the late seventies. The shift of priority from merely collecting information to providing information and updating developments in information and telecommunication technology, have resulted in the philosophy of the library building being adapted. With the primary problem area of the study being the functionality of the modern library building, in the RSA, the research area was defined according to period, type of library building and kind of institution. This study covers the period 1946 through 1983. A thorough literature study on the planning of libraries overseas and in the RSA has been conducted. The type of libraries analised in this study are the main library buildings at universities, teacher training colleges and technikons in use at the end of 1983. Eighteen university library buildings, nineteen teacher training college library buildings and seven technikon library buildings were considered. Each library has been visited and personal interviews were conducted with heads of libraries and senior members of the staff. The personal interview was supplemented by a structured questionnaire dealing with the history, planning, functional areas and the influence of technology on the building. This was completed during the interview. One university library did not occupy a planned library building in 1983. Two universities built two new main library buildings during the period thirteen universities built one each, while one expanded in linear fashion through several academic departments. At teacher training colleges ten new main libraries were constructed, one library was housed in a converted hall and eight were in temporary facilities. Three technikon libraries were in converted halls, three in temporary facilities and one in a library building which was built in 1923...

Se define un modelo conceptual de edificio de biblioteca universitaria actual fruto del cambio de paradigma, con proyección en la siguiente década. El modelo es usado para establecer comparaciones, posibilitando la creación de una herramienta para la evaluación de los edificios bibliotecarios. El modelo se establece por el estudio de la relación entre la estética y la practicidad de los espacios bibliotecarios; el conocimiento de la evaluación histórica de la tipología arquitectónica; la resolución de la incógnita sobre la necesidad de mantener bibliotecas físicas y presenciales en un entorno tendente a la biblioteca ‘sin paredes’; la recolección de las tendencias en el diseño; y la valoración de la adaptación a las necesidades académicas actuales y futuras de los edificios de bibliotecas universitarias existentes.

To begin is the time of belief in form. Design is the maker that serves this belief. To build is action from a sense of order. When the work is completed the beginning must be felt. I recall the beginning as Belief. It is the time of realizatlon of Form. It is feeling as religion, and thought as philosophy. Then there is no material no shape no dimension. And then recall the adventure of design when dream-inspired. Form must answer to the laws of order so as to be. / Master of Architecture

A questionnaire survey was conducted to ascertain the scope and methods used to involve citizens in public library facility planning and design. Because of the paucity of written material on this subject in the literatures of both library science and architecture, this descriptive study was undertaken.

The focus of this two year master’s thesis in Library- and Information science is the study of two Swedish Public Library buildings with the examples Lomma and Halmstad. The main goal and purpose of the thesis is to try to uncover which views and values of the public library are expressed in the examined libraries; and to what extent these views manifests are shown in its architecture. The theoretical framework is based on Raymond Williams’s cultural concepts of effective, dominant culture and the two extremities of this culture, called residual and emergent cultures. A second aspect is Yi-Fu Tuans concepts of Space and Place. The study also uses a historical background of Swedish Public Library Buildings. By close reading and textual analyses, the empirical study focuses on the municipalities’ documents surrounding the building of the library buildings in Lomma and Halmstad. The architectural perspective is studied through the architects own documents and architectural journals discussing the built Library Buildings. Results show that the technological advances of the time these libraries were built has put them in a position of change, which also is visible in the architecture. The libraries in Lomma and Halmstad function as civic icons of the community and the architecture is very dependent of the places where they are situated. The expressions of the two libraries differ in details but the overall result show that the values exhibited behind the building of the examined libraries is a part of a historical residual culture, functioning as effective and dominant. The conclusion of the thesis is that the expression of the architecture is however a part of an emergent culture. The buildings aim to comprise the values and display the diverse causes in its architecture. The buildings seek to manifest the ideal activity and working of the modern Public Library.

I think of a book as an act of human generosity. In its offerings are the treasures of a mind. The architecture of a library should celebrate the presentation of the book. In celebrating its presence, the library becomes a museum of books. IN THE ORDER OF THE CIRCLE GEOMETRY WARM GARDEN COLD GARDEN GREEN GARDEN STONE GARDEN IN THE NATURE OE THE WALL HOW TO FINISH THE LAND AT THE WATER’S EDGE / Master of Architecture

“For it is ultimately the function of art, in imposing a credible order upon ordinary reality, and thereby eliciting some perception of an order in reality, to bring us to a condition of serenity, stillness and reconciliation; then leave us as Virgil left Dante, to proceed toward a region where that guide can avail us no farther." T.S. Eliot This thesis is a search for an imposed credible order in a town library. As such it is simply a vehicle developing a process to produce architecture which is stable, whole and meaningful. / Master of Architecture