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Originally Posted by zzptichka
Modern libraries are not just about books. Just like old libraries allow to borrow books, libraries of the future make it easy for people to borrow and try tools they would have been hard pressed to get a hold of in their normal life.
I watched a film about new Oodi Library in Helsinki and it's incredible what they got in addition to standard spaces like coworking places and meeting rooms:
- audio recording studio and rehearsal rooms
- musical instruments
- photo studio
- 3D printers
- woodworking workshop
- printshop
- sewing atelier
- theatre studio with costumes and makeup
- all kind of stuff for electrical and soldering projects
and other things
This is the kind of stuff that inspires young people and helps them find what they want to do in life as well as helps adults enjoy their hobbies.
I don't have high expectations about our library getting close to that right away but eventually we'll get there and having a building is an important place to start.
BTW it cost them 150 Million CAD to build in 2018 (vs 200 Million CAD we are spending) and it's absolutely gorgeous inside and outside.
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You are describing here a workshop of interests. People have this as facebook groups for example ans get together. Instead of building one big hub workshop, community centers like this, should be build in the new developments and they should not be called libraries. And not only function as after school daycares. It is misleading to call it library, because people do not go there to get a printed book anymore. Also. I am living in Avalon Orleans. And what bothers me a lot. When architects develop new city landmarks, they cluster together shopping experience with residential living, entertainment, parks all mixed together. If you take for example Avalon, you will have the same old approach of parks separated from shopping and community activities. Endless parking lots and boxes mixed with fumes and dangerous driving on 10th lines and Innes. People have no where to sit down, enjoy the weather, walk, relax, eat ice cream, see the trees, fountains and green zones with lawns. Taking a break from shopping even having a pick-nick. It is simply putting, disgusting outdated and nobody is protesting what city is planning. Zoning like this, commercial and residential areas.
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