“Library by Design: DC’s 21st-Century Branches”
Rebecca Miller
September 14, 2010
The new innovations being constructed by the DCPL are designed to keep libraries up to date with the changing world and its technology. The newly constructed library now offers features that were once not available and not so much geared towards the American library setting. The library’s new design offers a much more open and spacious library that is not closed off and cluttered with walls and towering shelves of books. There are numerous rooms in each building now that are specifically designed for one on one tutoring and/or study groups. Each room is also equipped with WiFi so internet access will not be a problem. Also each building now has a Meeting Room with a capacity of one hundred people. The new design and features are geared toward bringing a new desire to venture to your neighborhood library.
These features do have the possibility to attract new consumers into libraries. Now rather than having a large meeting at an expensive restaurant or in a stuffy office building you can have it at a state of the art library with no interruptions or distractions. Also the offering WiFi in every study room is a plus. There are still a lot of public libraries that do not offer their own wireless internet which of course is a deterrent from going there to study. The separate study rooms I think is a wonderful idea. In most cases reading area are the same as study areas creating lots of vocal static and can be distracting to both the readers as well as the studiers.
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