Abstract

The irruption of technology has caused deep changes in library design. Digital collections free up space previously occupied by paper, while new services and commons are created. Librarians and architects do not have enough benchmarks or standards to guide the redesign of spaces caused by these changes. The Danish concept of the “four spaces”, introduced in the Model Programme for Public Libraries, could be useful for this purpose in public libraries.

Abstract

The work is focused on the present and future features of our profession. Especially we are taken into account the modernization needs of Information and Library Science. We propose that this modernization must come from the application of the Computer Science technologies which permit us to draw a new horizon for this area for the next 20 years.