Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Library buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Library buildings
Languages : en
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Author: Anders C. Dahlgren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153812839X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Eye-Popping Show-Stopping Libraries starts out by recounting the beginning of the relationship between the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) to establish the Library Building awards and traces the development of the program over the following five decades. In the next seven chapters the authors have grouped selected award-winning libraries by big themes, to explore the evolution of service innovations and design trends; most of the selected case studies include exterior and interior photographs, as well as floor plans. The final chapter offers some thoughts on what a half-century of award-winning architecture can tell us about the future of library service and library design. In the afterword the authors review the initial round of seventeen award-winning libraries from 1963, to assess how the designs have held up over time, and to describe the current disposition of the building. Three appendixes offer a chronological list of award recipients, an alphabetical list of awardees by library, and an alphabetical list by architect. The fourth and final appendix is a chronological list of jury members. This full-color, beautifully illustrated with 141 images book presents these exemplary libraries as an exploration of the evolution of library service and design. It examines the award-winning libraries by big themes to explore how service trends and design trends have evolved. Documentation of featured library buildings (including photographs and plans) is an important element.

Author: United States. Office of Education
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Category : Federal aid to libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: William Reed Eastman
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Category : Library architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Louisiana State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 080717260X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969. In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M. Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon Culver’s journals and library reports, in addition to correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents, and includes photos from five decades, many never before published. The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a library inspired perseverance. In time, Culver’s Louisiana plan served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name. Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service come true for all.

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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Author: Ricciuti Associates
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Category : Library buildings
Languages : en
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Author: Margaret Dixon
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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