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Building on Experience: Learning from the Past to Plan for the Future
14th Seminar of The LIBER Architecture Group in Hungary:
Budapest and Debrecen 8 – 12 April 2008
Tuesday 8 April
Venue: National Széchényi Library, Budapest
13:30 – 14:00 Opening Ulrich Niederer, Chair, LIBER Architecture Group / Judith Skaliczki, Library Department, Ministry of Education and Culture
14:00 – 15:30 Session 1: Lessons learned
Graham Bulpitt, London: Setting the scene: universities, libraries, and change
Marie-Francoise Bisbrouck, Paris: Evaluation of university library buildings in France
16:00 – 17:30 Session 2: Case studies in library buildings – then and now
Elmar Mittler, Göttingen: The German Experience
Valerie Vesque-Jeancard, Bibliotheque Nationale de France: A dynamic assessment of the François Mitterand Library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko, Warsaw: Warsaw University Library: experience 10 years after
17:30 Guided tour to The National Széchényi Library
Wednesday 9 April
Venue: National Széchényi Library, Budapest
9:00 – 11:00 Session 3: Sustainable Architecture
Gerd Schablitzki, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau: Sustainable Architecture: Truly ecological, or just a label? – ambition and reality in building the new Federal Environment Agency’s office and library complex in Dessau
Pat Noon: The Lanchester Library at Coventry University: building a sustainable library
11:30 – 12:30 Session 4: Contributed papers
Carine El Bekri-Dinoird: Reims: From a library to another: The new Robert de Sorbon library of the University of Reims
Søren Clausen, Royal Library Denmark, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Faculty Library for Humanities
13:15-13:30 Pierre-Yves Boulet, BRM Mobilier: Library furniture solutions
13:30 – 15:30 Session 5: Refurbishing and Reorganization
Thomas Feurstein, Bregenz: Changin a monastery into a library: The Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, Bregenz, Austria
Seamus McMahon, Cork: Refurbishing, extending, recreating, and renewing the Boole Library at University College Cork, Ireland
Jill Beard, Bournemouth: Reshaping the Future: The Sir Michael Cobham Library, Bournemouth University
Nicola Nykopp, Helsinki: New service concepts and buildings at the University of Helsinki
Thursday 10 April
Study tour to Nyíregyháza and Debrecen
Visits to Public Country Library and College Library in Nyíregyháza
Visit to new County Library in Debrecen
Friday 11 April
Venue: University and National Library, University of Debrecen
9:00 – 10:30 Session 6: Lightning
Raymond Belle, Paris: How to highlight your library – the power of light!
Marina Vio, Venice: Lights, books and man
11.00-12.30 Session 7: The right questions to the Architects
André Lohisse & Françoise Sogno, Paris: Architects and librarians under pressure: dialoguing about the renovation of a library in a constrained environment
Teresa Pages Gilibets, & Ignasi Bonet, Barcelona: Sant Boi de Llobregat Central Library, a good practice: librarian and architect working together, from the past to the future
14:00 – 15:30 Session 8: Hungarian Libraries
Gabriella Nagy, Budapest: Corvinius University Library: in the heart of the university
Bela Mader, Szeged: A new Learning Centre for the University of Szeged / movie (36MB / 7min)
16:00 – 17:30 Session 9: New Models
Les Watson, Glasgow: Building Libraries for Leaning, the Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University [for copyright reasons, there are no pictures in this presentation. Pictures of the Saltire Center can be found here and on Les Watson’s website]
Dr. rer.nat. Herbert Kristen, Karlsruhe: 24/7 – virtual services and a new extension of the university library
17:30 – 18:00 Conclusions Ulrich Niederer, chair, LIBER Architecture Group
