Programme

• Monday 20 March

  Pre-seminar tour: Inviting Libraries, Inviting Buildings
  March in Belgium and South of The Netherlands

  Bus trip to Brussels ; visit to the Humanities Library, Université Libre de Bruxelles (architect: Art & Build Architects). Welcome by Jean-Pierre Devroey, Library Director and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Presentation of the Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines by Christian Brouwer.

  13.30-16.00
  Lunch at the Public Library, Permeke Bibliotheek in Antwerp, including a visit to the library.
  Presentation by the architect Paul Robbrecht on the refurbishing of the Felix Archive Antwerp.

  16.00-17.00 Visit to Library at the Fashion Museum (architect Marie Josée van Hee)

  19.30 Visit to Gent University Library (architect: Henry van de Velde), combined with dinner reception

• Tuesday 21 March

  08.30-10.00 Bus trip to Leuven , with luggage

  10.00-11.30 Visit to the Science Library, Arenberg Campus, Catholic University Leuven (architect: Rafael Moneo).
  Presentation by Raf Dekeyser, University Librarian em., Catholic University Leuven

  11.30-12.30 Bus trip to Maastricht , The Netherlands
  Lunch at the Bonnefanten Art Museum (Aldo Rossi, architect), Maastricht

  13.30-15.00 Visit to the Centre Ceramique Public Library (Jo Coenen, architect), Maastricht

  15.00-15.30 Walk to University Library Maastricht

  15.30-17.30 Visit to University Library Maastricht (architect: OD205); welcome by John Gilbert, Chief Librarian

• Wednesday 22 March

  Seminar of The LIBER Architecture Group: Changing Needs, Changing Libraries

  11.00 Session 1 . Opening of the seminar
  a. Welcome by Elmar Mittler (LIBER Architecture Group)
  b. Welcome by Wim Kardux, Member of the Board of Utrecht University

  11.30-13.00 Session 2 . Changing needs, changing architecture

  a. Graham Bulpitt ( Kingston University , Kingston , London ): Changing requirements of students and researchers
  b. Marco De Michelis, IUAV University Venice: Trends in contemporary architecture

  14.00-15.30 Session 3 . Planning pricnciples

  a. Andrew MacDonald (Information Services, University of Sunderland): The Ten Commandments revisited
  b. Tina Hohmann, Dipl. Ing. Arch., MLIS: New aspects of library planning
  c. Panel discussion (Wiel Arets, Thomas Luecking [Gerber Archtitekten Prof. Eckhard Gerber], Tina Hohmann, Andrew McDonald, Marco de Michelis.)
  Ten commandments revisited

  16.00-17.00 Session 4 . Utrecht University Library

  a. Movie: “UBU Portrait” by Henryk Gajewski

  b. Bas Savenije (Utrecht University Library): Building a Living Library and Wiel Arets (architect of the Utrecht University Library): UBU Guided tour to library

• Thursday 23 March

  09.00-10.30 Session 5 . Contributed papers on refurbished buildings

  a. Pieter Segers: The renovation project of the University Library Nijmegen
  b. Ivana Kadlecova: Knihovna Akademie ved Ceské Republiky, Prague
  c. René Strehler: Library of the Law Institute, University of Zurich

  11.00-12.30 Session 6 . Contributed papers on refurbished buildings

  a. Sylvia van Peteghem: University Library of Gent
  b. Catherine Tresson: Library of the University Denis Diderot – Paris VII
  c. Alison Wilson: Recent developments in Cambridge

  13.45-15.00 Visit to Wageningen University Library (architect: Paul Wintermans)

  a. welcome by Library Director Dick van Zaane
  b. Presentation by architect Paul Wintermans

  16.00-18.00 Visit to Librije and Walburgis Church in Zutphen.

• Friday 24 March

  09.15-09.45 Session 7 . Contributed papers: New libraries,  Andreas Degkwitz: AD, ICMC, Brandenburg TU, Cottbus

  10:00-10:30 Poster session of Danuta Konieczna, about the new building of New Library of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland)

  10.30-12.00 Session 8 . Processes of Architecture competition: The Lausanne example
  a. Nicolas Joye (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne): Campus development
  b. David Aymonin (Library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) & Marie-Françoise Bisbrouck (Library of the University Paris-Sorbonne): program and competition
  c. Nicolas Joye & Mirjana Rittmeyer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne): Project development and planning
  Presentation and pictures

  13.00-14.30 Session 9 . Processes of Architecture competition

  a. Alessandro Bertoni (University Library System, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice ): New library buildings: alternatives, choices, selections
  b. Panel discussion by the speakers in session 8 and 9

  15.00-17.00 Session 10 . Campus development
  a. François Montarras (University Denis Diderot – Pairs VII): Campus development for the University Denis Diderot – Paris VII
  b. Marta Viragos (Debrecen University Library): Debrecen University Library, Hungary : a campus solution
  c. Art Zaaijer (Architect): Campus planning of The Uithof, followed by a guided tour to the Uithof

  Closing remarks by Bas Savenije (Utrecht University Library), and Elmar Mittler (LIBER Architecture Group)