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Dibrary of the present
When in Seoul, one of our library staff members took the opportunity to visit the National Digital Library of Korea. The facilities are impressive!
Dibrary is the world’s first hybrid library combining digital and analogue ideas. Dibrary consists of “Dibrary Portal,” a virtual space, and a physical service space called “Dibrary Information Commons”. - About Dibrary
You can also view these photos on Flickr.
The Ideas Circus
A mobile unit that will improve the exchange of ideas … fed by the progressive acquisition of knowledge from all places visited … able to respond quickly to the places visited and have the maximum information output.
The Circus is a hybrid assembly that owes something to the idea of existing units such as travelling exhibitions, mobile theatres, teaching machines, mobile clinics, roadshows and lecture circuits, but is necessarily different from them all.
[…] the Circus must have flexible and relatively advanced audio-visual and environmental equipment.
The Circus is not a classroom on wheels. It gains its maximum effect by being an event wherever it goes.
Concept by Archigram Group London, 1968
I see my library in the future as a community hub. Not just for reading and obtaining information, but also a space to meet, discuss and relax.
A typical visit to the library may involve paying your rates, catching up with friends over a coffee and muffin, watching the Australia vs South Africa 20/20 final, dropping off the children in the gaming area to play wii, reading the paper on your ereader plus downloading a few new titles onto it, popping through to the art gallery and picking up your child from the crèche.
No longer are community services physically divided, but flow into each other. I see the term “library” being superseded by another. Akin to the QANTAS club lounge or a Border’s bookshop on steroids, this evolution from repository of books to center of your world is underway. —Jim
video by Jaap van de Geer, DOK Delft
Community hub
I see the library of the future being a vibrant community hub with space for people of all age groups to meet, learn, discover new technology, make new friends, relax and yes, to continue to borrow and enjoy ‘books’ in a variety of formats, both within the library and from the comfort of their own homes. It will be a ‘place of choice’ where friends can meet over a cup of coffee, where students have access to a wide range of resources within the library and from home. The ideal library will have meeting rooms and exhibition and performance spaces to enrich community life. Ideally, the vital role of the library in the community will be not only acknowledged but also appropriately funded by state and federal governments
Heritage Centre
I would like a Heritage Centre in the future Mosman Library to display and house great local studies collection. Perhaps with interactive displays and of course the latest in technology.So many fabulous resources on Mosman- photographs, paintings, pottery, newspapers, books etc to share with the community.
Future Space
I would love to see bigger and more flexible library spaces - space for people to meet in groups, space where people can use technology to create, learn, experience and share, space for inspiring displays and exhibitions, a permanent space for author talks and information evenings, space for people to relax and reflect and read, space for teens to get together and have fun and make as much noise as they want without disturbing others and space for all the wonderful resources that the community wants.
Tranformation Lab at Aarhus Public Library Denmark - could this be Mosman Library’s future?
Black Diamond Library- Copenhagen
Check out the “Black Diamond”- the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. Not only an impressive and very modern building from the outside, but the inside integrates a variety of cultural activities with a concert hall, restaurants, galleries etc, making it a really contemporary community space- it’s great that the library is considered on par to be housed with these other cultural pursuits. Can’t quite see its imposing presence fitting in on Military Rd, but may as well aim big!
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