Architecture Working Group (LAG)

The LIBER Architecture Group (LAG) brings librarians together with building projects, and helps to focus concepts and planning processes.

It operates as part of LIBER’s Strategic Direction on Research Infrastructure, which in turn is one of the key pillars of our 2018-2022 Strategy.

The group furthers the exchange of experience between librarians and architects throughout Europe and attempts to raise the level of awareness of new projects and trends. This is done through our seminars, and via a digital database of Library Buildings in Europe documenting new buildings, renovations, refurbishments and extensions.

LAG Seminars

Luxembourg 2020

LIBER’s Architecture Group will hold its 20th seminar on Designing for Learning and Scholarship at The University of Luxembourg Learning Center, Belval Campus, on 1-3 April 2020.

More information will follow shortly.

Vienna 2018

• Agenda / Presentations

Freiburg 2016

• Agenda
• Documentation (New Library Buildings in Europe)

Helsinki 2014

• Agenda
• Documentation (New Library Buildings in Europe)

Prague 2012

• Agenda
• Documentation (New Library Buildings in Europe)

Madrid 2010

• Agenda
• Documentation (New Library Buildings in Europe), order form

Budapest & Debrecen 2008

• Agenda
• Documentation (Building on Experience: Learning from the Past to Plan for the Future)  // order form
• Additional Material

Utrecht/Gent 2006

• Agenda
• Documentation (Changing Needs – Changing Libraries: documentation of new library buildings in Europe) // order form
• Furtherance of academic excellence: documentation of new library buildings in Cambridge, Wilson, Alison; Mittler, Elmar // fulltext / order form

Bolzano/Venice 2004

• Agenda
• Papers from this seminar are available in LIBER Quarterly (Vol 14, No 2, 2004)
• Documentation (The Renaissance of the Library – adaptable library buildings: Documentation of new library buildings in Europe) // order form

Leipzig 2002

• Agenda
• Papers from this seminar are available in LIBER Quarterly (Vol 12, No 1, 2002)
• Documentation – (The Effective Library – Vision, Planning Process, and Evaluation : Documentation of new library buildings in Europe) // order form

Warsaw 2000

• Agenda
• Papers from this seminar are available in LIBER Quarterly (Vol 10, No 2, 2000)
• Preview of documentation:
  The Open Library – Financial and Human Aspects : Documentation of the new library buildings in Europe. Edited by Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko for the LIBER Architecture Group Seminar, Warsaw 12-14 April 2000.     Warsaw: The Warsaw University Library, 2000

London 1998

• Papers from this seminar are available in LIBER Quarterly (Vol 9, No 1, 1999)
   The Multi-Functional Library : proceedings of the LIBER Architecture Group seminar, London 20-24 April 1998

Paris 1996

• Papers from this seminar are available in LIBER Quarterly (Vol 7, No 1, 1997)
• Preview of Documentation
  The Post-Modern Library between Functionality and Aesthetics : proceedings of the seminar of the LIBER Architecture Group, Paris 22-26 January 1996 (edited by Marie-Françoise Bisbrouck and Elmar Mittler). The LIBER Quarterly Vol.7/1997 No. 1, special issue   (ISBN 3-201-01676-4) 

Earlier meetings:

Barcelona, 1993; Bavaria, 1990; Wien, Graz, Salzburg, 1988, Stockholm, 1985; Leiden, 1982; Heidelberg, 1980; and Rome…; and Lausanne 1971