The new public library building needs to meet a lot of diverse demands. It has to be developed in conjunction with librarian's needs, it has to react on existing urban conditions and it needs to be self-defining and future oriented, so it will be able to cope with radical changes in the communications we experience nowadays. Our proposition is a reaction to the impulses of the site combined with our view of what a new library should represent. It is: communication, interaction, inspiration. We try to eliminate negative aspects of the selected site and on the other hand, use and develop existing potential. The building tries to terminate the big crossroads next to the site and on the contrary to create a nice quiet public space with the church. It also wants to be a new landmark and icon of the town. The solution we found is based on two main principles. A fence. And a hill. Fence as a guard and prevention from crossroads, as a closure of the urban block and public space with green and church building inside, as a boarder with the industrial part of the town, as a show-off wall, a allure to the world of wisdom and quiet public space behind... It is represented by double glass facade along the border of the site. Hill as an activator of the site, as an icon and a brand of the place, as a second hill in whole town, as an island and oasis, as a place for sport, play, as an open public reading room, as a natural amphitheatre... It consists of a simple green roof raising from the church towards the sky, covering the library buiding.

The goal of this thesis is a design of a public library in the historical part of the city of Přerov. The locality that’s beeing solved, so called Na Marku, is situated at the point where the three important pedestrian routes meet on the bank of the Bečva river. Attractivness of the place is well increased by the nearness of both the main squares, the river and the unique well-preserved underpass used in the past by the brewery. Every landscape, every city and place have their own memory. The locality „Na Marku“ is packed with memories that run back to the first settlements on the river bank, the construction of the city walls, and up to the recent reconstruction of the Tyrš bridge. Throughout the history the place was formed by the local inhabitans and their varoius activities. Those gave origin to historical and spatial layers that overlay and complement each other and have – in Přerov, as well as anywhere in the world – a huge influence on one’s identification with a familiar place. This is where the church used to be. This is the path that leads down to the river. This is where the lime-tree blossoms fall down like snow in summer. In my thesis I aim for truly understanding the “genius loci” and designing a building that would bring a new sense of life to this weary but memorable locality.

This master’s thesis aims to contribute to and extend the knowledge regarding the public library staff’s work with newly arrived during the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Västerås, Sweden. This thesis is motivated by the increase of individuals who migrate to the city of Västerås and the high number of COVID cases that the city had in early 2022. Seven public library staff members from the city of Västerås were interviewed through semi-structured interviews. The empirical data was analyzed with the help of a theoretical framework based on a conceptualization of integration combined with a model that serves to make visible the different functions of a public library. The study shows that the library staff experienced various challenges and found creative solutions while working with the newly arrived during the pandemic while still adhering to the restrictions. The most critical challenges experienced were the decreased communication between the library staff and the newly arrived visitors and the digital participation of the visitors. Solutions regarding the challenges were created to suit the visitors’ needs, such as new services, digital forums, and the possibility of booking a librarian for IT tasks. In conclusion, all study participants agreed that the pandemic had made their work with the newly arrived visitors more challenging. Still, they all expressed their work with the visitors as inspiring, even amid a pandemic.

With All Due Modesty: The Selected Letters of Fanny Goldstein is an annotated edition of the correspondence of Fanny Goldstein (1895–1961), librarian, social activist, and founder of Jewish Book Week. Goldstein’s accomplishments include building a significant collection of Judaica for the Boston Public Library; compiling some of the earliest bibliographies of Jewish literature in English; evaluating manuscripts for publishers; writing book reviews; and lecturing and writing on a wide range of subjects related to Jews and Judaism. The purpose of the edition is to provide a picture of Goldstein’s life as a Jew, a woman, a librarian, and a social activist and in so doing, to contribute to a more complete understanding of Boston’s Jewish community in the first half of the twentieth century. I have included in the edition both incoming and outgoing letters with a wide range of correspondents, including Charles Angoff, Mary Antin, Isaac Asimov, Alice Stone Blackwell, Felix Frankfurter, Molly Picon, Ellery Sedgwick, and Friderike Zweig. The letters span the years from 1930 to 1960. The edition includes extensive annotation based on Goldstein’s newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, book reviews, and other writings; hundreds of Goldstein’s letters not published here; accounts published in the Jewish press and the mainstream press; and correspondence neither written nor received by Goldstein but bearing on her life and work.

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This study aims to look at how atmospheres impact library rooms at the public library of Umeå and the public library of Östersund. The theoretical framework is based on Tuan’s theory of ”Space” and ”Place” as well as earlier research on atmosphere in library environments. The empirical material is a selection of observations and surveys made at the two libraries, in the facts department and the daily newspapers room. The method that is used is autoetnographical analysis made with thick description.  This study argues that atmospheres can change rapidly in different library rooms at different times, which impacts the library user in many ways. This purpose is achieved by using five atmospheric themes; light, sound, architecture, furnishings and human impact. The result indicates that library users were impacted by these five atmospheric themes albeit in different ways, depending on the room, the time and the subjective experience of the library user. This knowledge is useful for future library operations, due to the fact that atmosphere impacts the experience of a public library. The study articulates that The International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) should include the importance of atmosphere in the IFLA manifesto.

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The word "context" originates in "contextus", which is Latin for "weaving." An architectural question arises as to how a building can so integrate itself with a community that is it truly woven into the urban fabric. The Shaw Neighborhood branch of the District of Columbia Public Library system closed in 2004. The building at the intersection of 7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue could no longer serve the needs of the community, and shall be replaced by a new facility on the same site. What are the needs of the community that should be addressed, and by what methods? As a civic building, what role will the new library play beyond that of a place to find books? What are the contexts that the new architecture will confront, and how does this building transcend the contexts of the present to endure as something equally valuable in the future? / Master of Architecture

Wird der Terminus Öffentliche Bibliothek diskutiert, dann werden diese mit der Versorgung der Bevölkerung für die schulische, politische, und berufliche Fort- und Ausbildung in Verbindung gebracht, zusätzlich bieten sie ein breites Spektrum an Medien für die Freizeitgestaltung. Angenommen wird dabei, dass Öffentliche Bibliotheken ebenso wie wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken im Besitz von Altbeständen sein können. Die Forschungs- und Literaturgrundlage zu Altbeständen in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken ist minimal, unabhängig davon, ob es um die Erschließung oder die Vermittlung solcher Bestände geht. Um das Bewusstsein für diesen Bestand zu stärken und Altbestände in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken sichtbar zu machen, bedarf es der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit erörtert die Möglichkeiten der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, die in Stadtbibliotheken angewandt werden können. Zunächst werden die Begriffe Altbestand, Öffentliche Bibliotheken und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit erläutert und anschließend ihrer Vor- und Nachteile, die Zielgruppen für die Altbestände in den Stadtbüchereien und die möglichen PR-Methoden, die für die Sichtbarmachung der historischen Bestände eingesetzt werden können. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Erkenntnisse über die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken zu gewinnen und ihre Ansätze auf die Wirksamkeit zu überprüfen. Hierfür wurden mittels Experteninterviews die Altbestandsmitarbeiterinnen und -mitarbeiter von jeweils drei Groß- und Mittelstadtbibliotheken in Sachsen befragt. Anschließend wurden die Ergebnisse nach den Aspekten Leitbild, Ziele der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Ressourcen, Stand der Digitalisierung, der Erschließung und des digitalen Nachweises, PR-Maßnahmen und Kooperationen verglichen und diskutiert. Ergänzt wurde dies durch Empfehlungen für die Praxis.:Abkürzungsverzeichnis 5 Abbildungsverzeichnis 6 1. Einleitung 7 2. Theoretische Grundlagen 11 2.1 Altbestand 11 2.2 Öffentliche Bibliotheken 15 2.2.1 Definition der öffentlichen Bibliothek 16 2.2.2 Abgrenzung zu wissenschaftlichen Stadtbibliotheken 17 2.2.3 Öffentliche Bibliotheken mit Altbestand 17 2.3 Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für Altbestände 21 2.3.1 Definition von Marketing, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Werbung 21 2.3.2 Chancen und Vorteile 25 2.3.3 Risiken und Nachteile 28 2.3.4 Zielgruppen 30 2.3.5 Methoden 34 3. Forschungsstand 53 3.1 Vorgehen bei der Auswahl und Auswertung der Studien 53 3.2 Zugrundeliegende Forschungsergebnisse aus der Praxis 54 3.3 Forschungslücken 56 4. Forschungsdesign 57 4.1 Detailfragen und Hypothesen 57 4.2 Auswahl und Begründung der Methodik 58 4.3 Darstellung des Hilfsmittels 59 4.4 Datenbasis, Vorgehen bei der Datenerhebung und Datenanalyse 60 5. Ergebnisse der Analyse 62 5.1 Praxisbeispiele für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für historische Bestände in sächsischen Öffentlichen Bibliotheken 62 5.1.1 Stadtbibliothek Bautzen 62 5.1.2 Städtische Bibliotheken Dresden 67 5.1.3 Leipziger Städtische Bibliotheken und Musikbibliothek 69 5.1.4 Vogtlandbibliothek (Plauen) 76 5.1.5 Christian-Weise-Bibliothek (Zittau) 79 5.1.6 Stadtbibliothek Chemnitz 84 5.2 Vergleich und Bewertung der Praxisansätze 89 5.2.1 Altbestand als Teil des Leitbildes 89 5.2.2 Ziele der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 90 5.2.3 Zielgruppen von Altbeständen in öffentlichen Bibliotheken 91 5.2.4 Ressourcen für die Abteilungen Historische Bestände und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 93 5.2.5 Stand der Digitalisierung 94 5.2.6 Nachweis- und Erschließungssituation 95 5.2.7 Methoden der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 97 5.2.8 Kooperationen 105 5.3 Diskussion 111 5.4 Methodenkritik und kritische Würdigung 114 5.5 Forschungsbedarf 115 6. Fazit 117 6.1 Zusammenfassung 117 6.2 Schlussfolgerungen 118 6.3 Ausblick 120 7. Quellenverzeichnis 122 7.1 Literatur 122 7.2 Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, Österreich und Europa 133 7.3 Bilder 137