This study identifies which skills/competences and qualifications played an important role in the international job mobility of eight Venezuelan Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals who developed their ...

A new library and pavilion have been built for Sydney’s Inner West community from an abandoned hospital building. Following on from an invited design excellence competition, the public was invited to vote for their ...

Suochengli Neighbourhood Library is located in a traditional Chinese siheyuan/courtyard house in the back garden of the historic Zhang Ancestral Hall in the port of Yantai in the Shandong Province of China. Over the ...

The Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte/Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Universiteit Gent/Ghent University held 50 different library collections, containing 670,000 books, which were scattered over 222 different locations ...

The American Philatelic Research Library, one of the largest libraries in the world specializing in stamp collecting and postal history, opened its new library in 2016. The library attracts researchers from around the ...

The chapter considers the potential of repurposing disused religious buildings for use as libraries and examines an exemplary model of library adaptive reuse in a cultural heritage context: La Capilla, the Biblioteca ...

The reuse of old buildings for new libraries has gained currency within the Library and Information Science (LIS) profession and has informed sustainability initiatives. Adaptive reuse benefits the environment by conserving ...

Pavilion 9E is part of a significant industrial archaeological slaughterhouse complex in Rome, dating back to the end of the 19th century. The pavilion closed in 1975, was abandoned and became derelict, with the roof ...

In 2014, the city council of Utrecht decided not to proceed with building the new library that had been planned for sixteen years, arguing that reuse of an existing building would be the preferred option. Reuse of the ...

Der Austausch und die (Nach-)Nutzung von Forschungsdaten sind seit Anfang der 2000er-Jahre verstärkt ein wissenschafts(-politisches) Thema. Beschäftigten sich zunächst eher die Fächer, die viele (quantitative) Messdaten ...