Building Libraries & Library Additions: Public Libraries

This go-to guide covers the entire process of building or renovating a public library--from initial planning, to maintaining the completed space, to measuring success.

Provides a complete discussion of library facility siting and relocation issues, discusses marketing concepts of relevance to library managers in siting library facilities, and offers practical advice on how to locate library facilities to most effectively serve the local population.

This collection of 22 highly informative essays offers important insight into current activities in the area of building planning.

Written from the perspective of staff members who worked in the Williamsburg Regional Library system during four years of multiple construction projects, this fresh and straight-on text covers both new construction and renovation and additions.