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The Model Programme for Public Libraries

Oulu 09.10.2014

Jonna Holmgaard Larsen

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Agenda

• Background – and the beginning

• Activities during the development proces

• The Model Programme

• Follow-up – from development to operation

• Break with discussion

• Public Library of the Year Award

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Background

• Changes to the roles of the library – especially since

the World Wide Web

• From collection orientation to user orientation and

involvement

• From availability to a new concept

• What is the definition of the concept?

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Model Programme for Public Libraries- the beginning

• Application to Realdania October 2011

• Pledge received December 2011

• Budget of 4 million DKK (€ 0,53 mil.) with 50%-50%

co-funding from the Danish Agency for Culture (DAC)

• Run by a steering group with DAC’s Director, library

managers, project leaders from Realdania a.o.

• Contract with the architect firm Signal for

development of the programme

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Objective

• To develop the public library as a central institution that contributes to ensuring Denmark’s position as a highly developed society with a special focus on quality

• To create the foundation for developing libraries in a changed cityscape and in a changed national landscape with new challenges also in sparsely populated areas

• To clarify how architecture itself can support the public library as the central meeting place that invites the citizen inside and is open to the citizens’ networking and learning needs

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Expected result

• A flexible and modular model programme spanning from the metropolitan library to the small, rural library

• The four-room model as point of departure describing the interaction between the library’s rooms and functions

• The product will be adynamic and visual tool

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Balagan Malmø

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Four ”rooms”

• Learning space: Discovering and learning. E.g. informal courses, e-learning, talks, access to knowledge resources, reference services

• Inspiration space: Adventures. Access to literature, art, film, music, entertainment and games. Events with writers and artists.

• Meeting space: Based on participation. Events about local political questions, current events, reading and study groups, community building and networking

• Performative space: Creativity & creation, aesthetic learning, writing workshops, events with house artists, movie workshops etc.

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What the Model Programme can be used for?

• Video - link

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Activities

• Desk research on library development and the library in city planning

• Study trips for the project and steering groups

• Three design workshops for libraries that are re-decorating or building a new library

• Three conferences (kickoff, midway, launch)

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Design workshops

• Survey: Mapped the status in the municipalities with a competition to win a facilitated course

• Result: 2/3 of the Danish municipalities are working with the transformation of library space

• Extra agreement with Signal Architects about facilitating a technical design workshop for three municipalities

• Objective: Qualifying the project by utilising experience

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Design workshops (2)

• The three winning municipalities

• Thisted: Classic library building being redecorated in connection with climate efforts and also being reshaped as an Open Library

• Billund: Redesigned as an Open Library and citizen service centre and the driving force in the Children’s Capital (Lego)

• Sønderborg: New library as a part of a multi-culture house along the harbour front (€ 12.5 million)

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Design workshops (3)

• Process Tools for the Development of Design Principles

• Who should participate?

• Recommendation: link the strategic management level to the operational level and also ensure user involvement

• Exercises about:

• the library's spaces and the four-room model• 24 hours at tomorrow's library • Dogmas for the good partnership at tomorrow's library

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Cases

• The cases represent the libraries we visited during the development of the programme

• New cases have been added after the launching

• They are not exemplary – but you can learn from all libraries

• Any library is a local directory with local conditions and local decisions and priorities behind. The library of the future is not one library, but different from place to place.

At this square no questions are asked- only given answers

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Piazza Annunziata Firenze

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Design challenges

The actual product is the creation of a set

of design challenges and

recommendations for libraries that are

redesigning or building a new!

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Design challengesExample 1

Focus area: Inspiration space (for experiences)Key: Decoration & furniture

Challenge: How can the library guide new as well as experienced users to new experiences, access to literature, art, film, music, entertainment and games, to events with artists etc.?

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Design ideas: Experiences can be made accessible

The red band in Hjørring guiding users through the library

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Signs on the floor and the walls are expressive guides. The library Rentemestervej does both.

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Ørestad library has an interactive floor plan of the library

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Focus area: Inspiration space (experiences)Key: Rooms & physical building

Challenge: How to signal more clearly that the space is an urban library? And invite people inside?


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The broken city square with the sunken scene in front of the new Birmingham Public Library

Design idea:

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Focus area: Urban spaceKey: Room & physical building

Challenge: How to create linking spaces between the library and the town, contributing to a vibrant urban space, and ideally attracting more visitors to the library?

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Design ideas:

Rentemestervej in the NorthWest part of CopenhagenA car park has been converted into a new culture-producing

space

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Design ideas:

• Aalborg Main Library. Rendsburggade, which links Nytorv and Nørregade, is a part of the building, featuring a glass roof, so that the library has entrances on both streets.

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Focus area: Meeting Space / Performative SpaceKey: Decoration / furniture

Challenge: Finding the right format and location for the stage to suit its users

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Design ideas:

• The purpose of the stage is primarily to support the

library’s function as a performative space

• - as a professional setting for ambitious cultural events• - or as a stage for the users inviting them to be spontaneous

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Focus area: Learning spaceKey: Decoration & furniture

Challenge: How to to create different, inviting spaces in interplay with the rest of the library?

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Design ideas:

• Study Cells, individual workplaces• Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere, the Netherlands

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Design ideas:

• Tårnby Library

Design ideas:

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Design ideas:

• For children…• Balagan, Malmø City Library

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Model Programme for Public Libraries- from development to operation

• After launch in September 2013:

• Translated to English

• Now run by Danish Agency of Culture, Libraries

• Editorial Group with library managers and development consultants

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Trends in Denmark 2014

• Lending is falling sharply

• What about the e-book? Are the libraries winning that fight?

• ”Open libraries” are spreading • More than half of the Danish libraries have opening hours with self-service in

addition to the hours with staff

• Libraries are merging with other institutions• Citizen service centres, culture houses, tourist offices, museums

• Other activities in the library space, • f.ex. Maker spaces: • It-cafés, Fab Lab, Coding Pirates

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What about Finland?

• What trends do you experience?

• Which challenges does this provide for the design of the libraries?

• Do you think the Danish Model Programme can be useful for you ? - as far as you are familiar with it until now

• Do you miss any design challenges?

• Please use 5 minutes to discuss these questions with the collegue next to you!

FEEDBACK

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Success criteria

• Goals for the website:

• 10,000 unique users per year• Annual growth 20 – 30 %

• Statistics: 01.01. - 05.10. 2014:

• 6,209 Danish users• 7,195 users of the English site

• Facebook:

• The Facebook page has a large number of users, from all over the world

• Use of the programme:

• A lot of statements saying that library developers use the programme when they are building new libraries.

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Follow-up: National initiatives

•Dissemination and knowledge-sharing at conferences

•Several projects have been started with funds from our Development Pool. The projects are meant to work with the design challenges, gain new experience and provide contents to the programme.

•Two workshops in the autumn, different locations.

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Follow-up: International initiatives

• The Facebook page has a surprisingly large number of visitors from all over the world

• There is a high demand for presentations about the programme at international conferences etc.

• We have therefore increased efforts on the international part

• schmidt/hammer/lassen architects Public Library of the Year Award 2014

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Public Library of the Year

• The award ‘schmidt hammer lassen architects – Public Library of the Year Award 2014’ was handed out at a award ceremony at the annual IFLA Conference in Lyon 17 August.

• Established by the Model Programme for Public Libraries

• The architectural firm schmidt hammer lassen architects sponsors.

• The Model Programme aims to motivate municipalities into developing the library of the future.

• The award is DKK 25,000, which is given to the winning municipality.

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Assessment criteria

• The library must be newly-built. (Must have been completed in the period 1 January 2012 - 15 June 2014.)

• The definition of a new library here is a library that has been newly built from scratch, or a library that has been set up in premises that have not previously served as a library.

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Six over-all criteria

• The good process

• Interaction with the

surroundings

• Flexibility

• Building quality

• Digital communication

• Local culture

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Library of BirminghamEnglandArchitects: Mecanoo

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Nominated for:

Interaction with the cityscape and strong community engagement

Architecture with strong references to the local heritage, successfully integrated into the design

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Craigieburn LibraryAustraliaArchitect: Francis-Jones Morehen TorpPhoto by Trevor Mein

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Nominated for:

High design quality and beautiful use of local materials

High functional quality in an inviting, informal and human scale

With its open and flexible spaces the library transforms into a democratic space inviting diversity and interaction

A driver in urban development

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The NetherlandsArchitect: MVRDV

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Bookmountain Library Spijkenisse

Nominated for:

Use of books as symbol for the worth of learning

Inviting the city inside through its glass façade

Creating dialogue in the library sector about the future for libraries

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Ørestad LibraryDenmarkArchitect: KHRPhoto by Johan Furnaise

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Nominated for:

Innovative use of digital resources

Flexible rooms as an example of an efficient use of space

Sharing of a Public and a School Library which stresses the good use of resources

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The winner

Craigieburn Library, AustraliaArchitect: Francis-Jones Morehen Torp

Through a collaboration between the architectural firm, Hume City Council and the community, the library shows how a contemporary library as a public building can help set high design standards for a new civic and community.

Photo by Trevor Mein

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Craigieburn Library

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Craigieburn Library

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Craigieburn Library

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Public Library of the Year

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We are planning to award the prize in 2015 and 2016

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The address:

• http://modelprogrammer.kulturstyrelsen.dk/en/

• New cases and proposals for new design challenges are welcome.Find the template on the website

• We have a Facebook account that you are welcome to utilise

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Thank you!

Questions are welcome:

Jonna Holmgaard Larsen

[email protected]

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