Programme

• 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)