Saturday, March 31, 2001

Enrollment Limit: 35 people

Workshop Leader:

Jay K. Lucker

Sponsors:

Space Planners Round Table

This workshop is wheelchair accessible

 

Twelve essential areas for a successful art library building project will be addressed in this workshop: predicting collection growth; determining the amount and nature of user space required; organization of functions and services; storing collections effectively; designing in flexibility; creating appropriate environments for research, learning, and study; providing security for collections and patrons; accommodating the physically challenged; wiring and connectivity; staff offices and workrooms; environmental concerns; and librarians as players in the process. Issues regarding technological and other changes in and around art libraries that affect space planning must be answered before the first step is taken.

Jay K. Lucker was Director of Libraries at MIT from 1975 to 1995. Since 1960 he has served as a library building and management consultant to numerous universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and research organizations involving campus-wide planning, new library buildings, additions, and renovations. He holds the Helen F. Childs Lectureship at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, where he teaches courses in academic libraries and library architecture.

Among Lucker's current and recent projects involving art and architecture libraries are: Clark Art Institute; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; Rotch Library, MIT; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum; Rhode Island School of Design; Smith College; Yale University.