The Emergence and Challenge of the Modern Library Building: Ideal Types, Model Libraries, and Guidelines, from the Enlightenment to the Experience Economy

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The evolution of modern libraries has been closely related to the development of modernity in Western societies, both in relation to the development of social life in the last centuries and to the growing importance of reading, information, and knowledge and to the ideas of enlightenment, democracy, tolerance, and the open society. The increasing number of library buildings and the development of library space are part of the greater accessibility of information, the opening of the organization of knowledge, and the creation of a public sphere. This article examines the making of the modern library building and the related discourse by selecting important model buildings, guidelines, discussions, and experiments reflecting various cultural and social visions of democracy and openness. The perspective is international. An investigation is made of the physical as well as the social construction of the modern library space and of its identity and “libraryness.”Submitted by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2012-06-26T17:16:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 60.1.dahlkild.pdf: 1105803 bytes, checksum: a18c4d1778c81f55784941d3f51e18e7 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2012-06-26T17:16:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 60.1.dahlkild.pdf: 1105803 bytes, checksum: a18c4d1778c81f55784941d3f51e18e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011Item withdrawn by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2012-06-26T17:16:09Z Item was in collections: Library Trends 60 (1) Winter 2011: Library Design: From Past to Present (Restricted) (ID: 873) No. of bitstreams: 1 60.1.dahlkild.pdf: 1105803 bytes, checksum: a18c4d1778c81f55784941d3f51e18e7 (MD5)Item marked as completely restricted (or under embargo) by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2012-06-26T17:16:09Z Item is restricted until 2013-03-26T17:15:06ZItem withdrawn by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2012-06-26T17:41:16Z Item was in collections: Library Trends 60 (1) Summer 2011: Library Design: From Past to Present (Restricted) (ID: 873) No. of bitstreams: 1 60.1.dahlkild.pdf: 1105803 bytes, checksum: a18c4d1778c81f55784941d3f51e18e7 (MD5)Item marked as completely restricted (or under embargo) by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2012-06-26T17:41:16Z Item is restricted until 2013-09-26T17:41:16ZItem reinstated by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2013-09-27T10:00:19Z Item was in collections: Library Trends 60 (1) Summer 2011: Library Design: From Past to Present (Restricted) (ID: 873) No. of bitstreams: 1 60.1.dahlkild.pdf: 1105803 bytes, checksum: a18c4d1778c81f55784941d3f51e18e7 (MD5)Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves ([email protected]) on 2013-09-27T10:00:19Zpublished or submitted for publicatio