New Report: ACRL Publishes a Quantitative Overview and Analysis of New U.S. Academic Library Construction, 2000–2014
Released online today by ACRL.
The full title of the new report (36 pages; PDF) is:
Building with Purpose: A Quantitative Overview and Analysis of New U.S. Academic Library Construction, 2000–2014
It was written by:
Christopher Stewart, Ed.D
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University
From an ACRL Blog Post:
ACRL is pleased to announce the first in a two-part set of Occasional Reports on academic library construction and renovation. Authored by Christopher Stewart, Building with Purpose: A Quantitative Overview of U.S. Academic Library Construction 2000-2014 presents a rich set of data on, and analysis of, new library construction over the past fourteen years. A forthcoming second report will cover academic library renovations in the same period.
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Stewart is also the author of the 2010 ACRL publication The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Academic Library Space.
Direct to Full Text Text Report Released on February 19, 2015: Building with Purpose: A Quantitative Overview and Analysis of New U.S. Academic Library Construction, 2000–2014
Filed under: Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.