‘Your ticket to a new world’: a love letter to the public library

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Derry Central Library “recently won an award for the work we’ve done with people suffering from dementia,” says librarian Trisha Ward. “We run job clubs, we run a mental health initiative and Macmillan Cancer have an information point here. The numbers of books borrowed from the shelf is going down, but this has almost plateaued after a steep drop for about 10-15 years. What we are seeing now is visitor numbers going up and IT use going up.”

The newly listed Coleraine library: “The outside has been painted this horrible green colour which doesn’t do it any justice,” says architect masnus Deery, “but inside you have the book stacks aligned with strips of window which run the whole way around and then this great double height space. You see this in some of the world’s best libraries, in the British Library, which has a beautiful reading dome, and its equivalent in Dublin, which has half a reading dome”

Wed Dec 09 2015 - 12:32

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