TY - BOOK AU - Webb, Terry TI - Building libraries for the twenty-first century: the shape of information SN - 9780786420346 U1 - 022.30904 PY - 2000/// CY - Jefferson, NC PB - McFarland & Company; KW - Library architecture KW - Library buildings KW - Library design - history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.265-266) and index N2 - This book explores the reasons by examining several notable new library facilities around the world to see how modern expectations for libraries are being translated into concrete and steel. More and more libraries are looking at change not as a dreaded hazard but as an opportunity that can itself be seized to strengthen the library in the areas of mission, technologies, facilities, funding, and organizational structure ER -