Freiburg 2016 (18th Seminar)

Get Involved: Futureproofing your Library through Dialogue
Freiburg University Library, Germany

The program, photos and other information about this seminar are available on the official seminar website.

Evaluation form LAG Seminar, Freiburg, April 2016

Tuesday 12 April
Pre-seminar library visits to Strasbourg (BNU and Andrế Malraux Public Library)

Wednesday 13 April

AM
Visits to libraries in Freiburg area.
St Peter’s Monastery Black Forest, Archives, the Diary Museum or the Solar Green Eco Village “Quartier Vauban”)

13:00 – 13:30 Opening: Welcome Ulrich Niederer, chair LAG and Prof. Dr. Gunther Neuhaus, Vice Rector, Freiburg University

13:30 – 14.30 Keynote Prof Martin Hoenen, University of Basel, Changing Libraries

15:00 – 17:00 Session 1 User involvement
Graham Walton, Loughborough University Library: How Library users use space: research results
Olaf Eigenbrodt, Hamburg State and University Library: User participation in the planning process
Agnes Mainka, Heinrich Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Links between public and academic libraries in city planning and urbanism
Frédéric Brodkom, Library of Science and Technology, Catholic University Louvain: Mapping users’ habits and patterns of use at the University of Louvain.

Thursday 14 April
09:00 – 10:30 Session 2 Staff involvement
Andreas Haitz-Fliehmann, Universitätsbauamt Freiburg: Involving staff in the planning process
Hendrik Defoort, Ghent University Library: Moving a closed access collection at Ghent

11:00 – 12:30 Session 3 Architects’ approaches to the new library building type
Francois J.V. Valentiny, Valentiny hvp Architects, Remerschen-Schengen/ Luxembourg: The Luxembourg University project.
Clément Blanchet, architect, Paris: Different places where information can be shared

14:00 – 16:00 Session 4 New buildings (Librarians and architects)
Ralf Coussée, Coussée & Goris architecten Ghent: Krook, the Ghent Central Library
Roisin Heneghan, Heneghan Peng architects: Dublin Greenwich University Library
Antje Kellersohn, Freiburg University Library, and Heinrich Degelo, Degelo Architekten, Basel: Freiburg University Library.(Presentation Kellersohn / Degelo)

Friday 15 April
9.00 – 10.30 Session 5 Technical issues
Daniela Pogade, Textredaktion Berlin: Signage and wayfinding
Jochen Usinger, UKW Innenarchitekten Krefeld: Light according to the DIN standards versus lighting concept
Ulrich Niederer, Central and University Library Luzern: High Tech, Low Tech: The Swiss Cooperative Storage Facility

11.00-12.30 Session 6 Post occupancy evaluation: the planning cycle
Karen Latimer, Queen’s University Belfast Library: The IFLA POE project and Queen’s University of Belfast Library(6 years on)
Klaus Ulrich Werner, Freie Universität Berlin: Philologische Bibliothek “The Brain”(10 years on)
Jeremy Upton, Edinburgh University Library: Edinburgh University Library (c. 50 years on)