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Prelims -- The right place at the right time: creative spaces in libraries -- The library as safe space -- Understanding and embracing service design principles in creating effective library spaces and services -- Socially constructing library as place and space -- This space wanted: how four academic medical libraries and one joint storage facility converted libraries from materials warehouses to usable spaces -- From "library as place" to "library as platform": redesigning the 21st century academic library -- Library spaces redefined: a case study at a liberal arts college -- Great expectations: (re)design motivator for merging traffic at the service desk -- Sending out an sos: being mindful of students need for quiet study spaces -- The learning theater: a library space to be re-designed by patrons -- A space for everyone and everyone in the space: re-designing existing library space to inspire collaboration -- The library store: a new place and space within the georgia tech library -- Building back better libraries: improving planning amidst disasters -- Using persona descriptions to inform library space design -- About the authors.

Libraries are dealing with unprecedented changes on several fronts: technological developments, funding difficulties, and an increasing need to prove themselves to a demanding population. These factors understandably impact physical library space. Looking toward the future, what changes can we expect to see in how libraries use space. This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization (ALAO) will focus on the future of library spaces. ALAO offers long-form research, comprehensive discussions of theoretical developments, and in-depth accounts of evidence-based practice library administration and organization. The series aims to answer the questions "How have libraries been managed and how should they be managed?" It goes beyond a platform for the sharing of research to provide a venue for dialogue across issues, in a way that traditional peer reviewed journals cannot. Through this series practitioners can glean new approaches in challenging times and collaborate on the exploration of scholarly solutions to professional quandaries.

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