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"Green Square presented an opportunity to carve out an entire new town centre and putting the library at the heart of it provided a setting to ask designers to rethink what a library could be in the most open and exciting way", says Felicity. "The international model is moving to that of the Culture House, which expands the remit of libraries far beyond book borrowing", says Felicity, who undertook a grand tour of the world's most innovative libraries ahead of beginning work on the one at Green Square. Many hotels are reviving the hotel library, a part of their offering once thought defunct, which makes sense given the library is a surprising presence in many younger consumers' lives. [Extracted from the article] |