Libraries

The New York Times City Critic ventures to Battery Park City to check out the city's newest and greenest library, yet occupying only 10,000 sq. ft. in a multi-story building, and comes away mightily impressed. Check out the photo slide-show.

March 29, 2010 - The New York Times - N.Y. / Region

The public library is being re-imagined as an interactive space with multimedia learning labs, coffee shops and government services.

March 3, 2010 - Miller-McCune

Libraries are struggling to make ends meet in Milwaukee. One possible solution: integrating a mix of uses.

August 7, 2009 - Library Journal

In this slideshow from Slate, Witold Rybczynski looks at public libraries from across the country and wonders how they will and should react to the increasingly digital age.

March 1, 2008 - Slate

As a note of introduction, I am a Master's student in Community Planning at the University of Maryland. I'm happy to be part of this exciting project. With a series of new urban libraries opening in U.S. cities recent years, its been said we're living through an 'urban library renaissance.' Whether it is the enthusiastic reception of the new Seattle library, or lending and attendance up in urban Canadian libraries, there seems to be an increased awareness of the critical role libraries play, even in the information age.However, no such renaissance has happened here in Washington, D.C. -- at least not yet. Here the former mayor's plans to build a new library were stalled by what the Washington Post has termed the 'Mies Mystique.'

February 22, 2007 - Robert Goodspeed