Permeability as a Concept for Planning: The Taylor Family Digital Library
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2019-11
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The last 25 years in libraries have been characterized by constant change, perhaps more than most areas of the academy. Driven first by ubiquitous networked access to information, then by the changing nature of the student experience, notions of library space design have been transformed. Today, a fundamentally new type of library is needed. The Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) at the University of Calgary is widely recognized as an instantiation of this new library. A $205M project opened in 2011, the TFDL represents a library not built for permanent housing of collections, but for people interacting in permeable and flexible spaces.
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Part of Plenary Session IV: Imagining & Focusing on the Future presented at the Learning Spaces Collaboratory, 2019 LSC National Colloquium November 1-3, 2019 Kansas City, Missouri
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LEED Gold Certification, Taylor Family Digital Library, designing permeable spaces, permeable spaces, student learning spaces, architectural design, Nickle Galleries, art museums, libraries, high density storage library, Taylor Quadrangle, knowledge creation, visualization display wall, raised flooring, Lab NEXT, multidisciplinary collaboration
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Hickerson, H. T. (2019). Permeability as a Concept for Planning: The Taylor Family Digital Library. [PowerPoint slides]. Website Name: https://prism.ucalgary.ca/