security in library buildings

Modelica Buildings Library 2.0

This paper presents an update about recent additions to the Modelica Buildings library. The Modelica Buildings library is a free open-source library with dynamic simulation models for building energy and control systems. The library contains models for air-based HVAC systems, chilled water plants, water-based heating systems, controls, room and envelope heat transfer, multizone airflow, includi...

Library Buildings: Planning and Programming

There are many books and articles dealing with planning a library building project. This article presents the need for project teams, describes their composition, and presents their role in the planning process. The role of the building consultant is outlined and the qualities desired in the building consultant presented. The space estimation process is presented, including charts of space requ...

Remodeling and Expanding Carnegie-Era Library Buildings

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 556–580. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract One of the most satisfying undertakings in library building design can be the expansion and remodeling of historic public libraries from the early twentieth century. However, although ...

university library buildings of the future

various view points of the library planners about the future’s library buildings have been explained in this paper. with the advances in information technology, some librarians believe that modern and well planned library buildings are not so necessary in the future. on the other hand, many others believe that more modern and well technologically equipped library buildings should be built to fu...

Library buildings in the 1990s: St. George’s Library at the University of Sheffield

an alternative approach to security concerns in digital library initiatives

digital preservation refers to an important aspect that most iranian digital library initiatives lack. this component is security. while a digital library may be misconceived as an information supply space without a physical form, the same security concerns in force for operation of physical library are valid. unlike the analog materials, all digital copies of digital materials are original. a ...