Modern Day Library Issues

Information, opinion, and links about issues facing libraries gathered by Library Renaissance Project in consideration of the transformation and renewal of the DC Public Library.

• Adult Literacy

  Libraries can play a key role in helping meet the needs of DC's functionally illiterate.

• Designing a Library: Collaborative Community Process?

  The ideal library design process is one which best facilitates collaboration between the public, the government (library leadership), and the architects.

• Library Operations: Staffing, Physical Plant, Decison making

  Transparency around library decision making regarding key library functions is critical to keeping the public interested and involved in helping improve this important community institution.

• Fire & Emergency Safety

  Is DCPL actively seeking to preserve the safety of library users and neighbors to the library?

• Library Architecture & Buildings

  Are new library buildings better addressing community needs and 21st Century library programming?

• Green Libraries

  Resources and articles showing how the nation's libraries are going green -- including right here in the District.

• Libraries Can Raise Money: Public & Private

  Fundraising to keep libraries fully operated and full of relevant materials is critical especially in times of budget shortfalls.

• Advocates for Homeless Object to New D.C. Library Rules

  Pamela Stovall, the Martin Luther King Jr. library's associate director, says visitor numbers have been down, forcing officials to look for ways to attract more people.

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