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Wednesday
May142008

Library design advice from the ancients

I went to library school back when God's dog was still a puppy. But there were remarkable teachers even as long as 30 years ago. Mildred Laughlin, at the time a professor at the University of Iowa, taught most of the school library classes including administration and management. ("Leadership" was not the Holy Grail it is today.) Dr. Laughlin's course included a unit on school library facility design and her advice holds up.

This blog post and the next 6 briefly explore the basic school library design principals, as I remember them, from that long ago class...  

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Look forward to reading these posts as we begin the planning and design of our new freestanding media center.

May 14, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFran

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