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Design Showcase New and Renovated Libraries by Phil Morehart September/October 2016 THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 2016 LIBRARY DSHOWCASEESIGN p. 36 ALA Award Winners p. 26 Escape Room Challenges p. 14 PLUS: Jamie Lee Curtis, Tiebrary, and Meme Librarian This season, the most talked about style won’t be on the runway. Introducing APA Style CENTRAL® is a revolutionary new electronic Available exclusively to institutions on a license basis. resource that combines sophisticated learning and www.apastyle.org/asc teaching tools, advanced writing and content management technology, and full integration of APA’s best-selling Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association®. LEARN RESEARCH WRITE PUBLISH September/October 2016 American Libraries | Volume 47 #9/10 | ISSN 0002-9769 COVER STORY 36 2016 Library Design Showcase New and renovated libraries BY Phil Morehart FEATURES 26 ALA Award Winners 2016 Honoring excellence and leadership in the library profession 44 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards 48 44 A Place of Their Own 48 Creating spaces where teens can thrive BY Jennifer Velásquez 26 ON THE COVER: Paris–Bourbon County (Ky.) Public Library, by Chris Phebus/Phebus Photography 14 64 18 UP FRONT TRENDS OPINION 4 From the Editor 14 Libraries on Lockdown ON MY MIND The Feng Shui of Escape rooms, a breakout trend 22 Creating Successful Spaces Library Design in youth programming BY Lee C. Van Orsdel BY Laurie D. Borman BY Katie O’Reilly ANOTHER STORY 8 From Our Readers 16 Recommended Reading 24 Knowledge for the Win How digitized readers’ advisory BY Joseph Janes stays personalized ALA BY Terra Dankowski PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 6 From the President SPOTLIGHT IN PRACTICE Lead with the 18 Community Ties 54 Accessibility Matters Value of You Philadelphia branch lends out BY Meredith Farkas BY Julie B. Todaro neckties to job seekers DISPATCHES 7 From the NEWSMAKER 55 Community Knowledge Bases Executive Director 20 Jamie Lee Curtis BY Kristen Wilson Advocacy School Actress and author on library in Session advocacy and legacy YOUTH MATTERS BY Keith Michael Fiels 56 Ready to Code PLUS BY Linda W. Braun 10 Update 15 By the Numbers What’s happening LIBRARIAN’S LIBRARY 19 Global Reach at ALA 58 All in the Family 21 Noted & Quoted BY Karen Muller SOLUTIONS 60 Reading Remotely Comics move online PEOPLE 62 Announcements THE BOOKEND 64 I Can Has Meme Job? 16 Adam Matthew Cover 4 | American Psychological Association Cover 2 | CoLibri Systems 12 | GEICO 13 | Scannx 53 | Steelcase 3 | Telelift 52 American Library Association American Association of School Librarians Cover 3 | Booklist 23 | Conference Services 34–35 | Editions 5 | Graphics 25 | JobLIST 57 ©2015 Steelcase©2015 Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks used herein are the property of Steelcase Inc. or of their respective owners. Brody™ WorkLounge Designed to be good for your body and good for your brain. steelcase.com/brody THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Address: 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611 The Feng Shui of Library Design Website: americanlibrariesmagazine.org Email: [email protected] Phone: 800-545-2433 plus extension hile strolling through Chicago’s China- Career Ads: JobLIST.ala.org town after lunch several months ago, What’s a EDITOR AND PUBLISHER my family and I saw that the new Laurie D. Borman library branch was open. We’d been memorable feature [email protected] | x4213 View of the W you have seen MANAGING EDITOR canal from watching the 16,000-square-foot, two-story build- at a library? Sanhita SinhaRoy Copenhagen ing go up over the previous year and were fascinated [email protected] | x4219 Royal Library’s with the curvy, three-sided, glass-walled design. SENIOR EDITORS escalator The bright and beautiful “Universal Transverse Amy Carlton Immigration Proclamation,” a mural by C. J. Hunger- [email protected] | x5105 The typeset George M. Eberhart man, splashes across a wall on the second story, easily floors at [email protected] | x4212 The Thomas Laurie D. Borman visible from the airy atrium. The mural, created after Seattle’s ASSOCIATE EDITORS Hughes Free C e nt ra l L ib ra ry Library in conversations with local residents, represents the past, Terra Dankowski [email protected] | x5282 Rugby, Tenn., present, and future of Chinatown. Phil Morehart frozen in time Feng shui principles of harmony guided the design of [email protected] | x4218 in the 1880s the space, which features a children’s area and commu- EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING ASSISTANT Carrie Smith nity room on the ground floor, with private study rooms [email protected] | x4216 and adult and teen spaces on the second floor. All the The Winter EDITORIAL INTERN spaces were busy when we visited—kids playing with Garden at Megan Perrero computers and reading books, seniors playing mah-jongg, Chicago Public [email protected] | x2157 Library’s Harold ART DIRECTOR and students with tutors in the study rooms upstairs. Washington Rebecca Lomax Solar shading screens fitted into the glass curtain wall Library Center [email protected] | x4217 reduce heat gain yet let light in, and a green roof with ADVERTISING native grass can be seen from the nearby elevated train. Michael Stack [email protected] | 847-367-7120 Acceptance of advertising does not constitute endorsement. The Chinatown branch is just one of many amazing ALA reserves the right to refuse advertising. Chicago’s new library designs and renovations featured in this PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT issue’s Library Design Showcase, beginning on page 36. Donald Chatham, Associate Executive Director Mary Jo Bolduc, Rights, Permissions, Reprints | x5416 Chinatown In addition, be sure to see the American Library MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT branch is just Association/International Interior Design Association Ron Jankowski, Director library interior design award winners on page 44. ADVISORY COMMITTEE one of many Also in this issue, we feature outstanding librarians Joseph M. Eagan (Chair), Helen Ruth Adams, Ernie J. Cox, Lee A. Cummings, Christine Korytnyk Dulaney, Tina Franks, amazing and authors who received ALA awards this year at the Jasmina Jusic. Interns: Tom Bober, Lucy Kelly ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Flor- Editorial policy: ALA Policy Manual, section A.8.2 new library ida. New for 2016 is the Ernest A. DiMattia Jr. Award for INDEXED Innovation and Service to Community and Profession, Available full text from ProQuest, EBSCO Publishing, designs and H. W. Wilson, LexisNexis, Information Access, JSTOR. presented by the DiMattia family in memory of our former SUBSCRIBE renovations Publishing Committee chair and president of Stamford, Libraries and other institutions: $70/year, 6 issues, US, Canada, Connecticut’s Ferguson Library. See the honorees for the and Mexico; foreign: $80. Subscription price for individuals in- featured in cluded in ALA membership dues. 800-545-2433 x5108, email DiMattia Award and others beginning on page 26. [email protected], or visit ala.org. Claim missing issues: this issue’s What is the coolest library job anywhere? Could it be ALA Member and Customer Service. Allow six weeks. meme librarian for Tumblr? Amanda Brennan thinks PUBLISHED Library Design American Libraries (ISSN 0002-9769) is published 6 times so, and that is her job. Learn more about Brennan on yearly with occasional supplements by the American Library Showcase. page 64. Association (ALA). Printed in USA. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, Illinois, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Personal members: Send address changes to American Librar- ies, c/o Membership Records, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ©2016 American Library Association. All rights reserved. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced or republished without written permission from the publisher. 4 September/October 2016 | americanlibrariesmagazine.org ALA purchases fund advocacy, awareness, and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. Editions alastore.ala.org Neal-Schuman TechSource Save on the new edition of the best-selling Checklist of Library Building Design 2016 | softcover 288 pages | 8.5" x 11" Considerations $72 | Members: $64.80 by William W. Sannwald ISBN: 978-0-8389-1371-0 Using a popular checklist format that ensures no detail is overlooked, this book is an essential tool for every design and construction project. For a limited time use coupon code ALWS16 at the Don’t delay! Off er expires 11/30/16. ALA Store for a $5 discount. Lead with the Value of You Don’t discount the worth of your staff and your own expertise n the previous issue of American Libraries, office space in another building but travel to the I outlined my ALA initiatives for the coming library for their reference shift. year, with a focus on ALA’s public awareness Some things have improved but often for Icampaign, Libraries Transform, which was unfortunate reasons. Public buildings have been launched last year. This year, we’re building recognized as environments needing increased on the momentum with an additional focus security and staffing levels to ensure constitu- for the initiative—Libraries Transform: The ent safety. While librarians typically have said Expert in the Library. In talking about this, they can’t stay open full hours with few or no I always envision myself looking a little like staff members, an increasing number of them Steve Martin in The Jerk, shouting proudly, are willing to say the library will close a certain Julie B. Todaro “I’m in print!” I think this feeling comes from number of hours until the technology assets my years of pushing people to step up and needed and people with expertise are funded. credential themselves to their decision makers The best messages we can communicate for and constituents. our libraries are those that include our value But the need to credential comes from years and—if you don’t already—include the value of hearing people say, “Do you have to have and expertise of your professionals as they training to do this job?” and “I’d love to have connect their constituents to the resources and your job—I would love to read all day!” My services they need.
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