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Physical Plant Resources

Barrier Free Libraries

• Directory of New York State Independent Living Centers
• New York State Aid for Public Library Construction
• United Spinal Association
• U.S. Department of Justice. Americans With Disabilities Act ADA Home Page

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Capital Campaigns

• Blueprint for a Library Capital Campaign Glen Gilbert, Friends & Foundations of California Libraries.
• Fundraising: Capital Campaigns Susan Love, Mid-Hudson Library System.
• Fund Raising Resources Rebekkah Smith, Mid-Hudson Library System.

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Children’s and Teen Space Planning

• Libris Design, California State Library. Library Collection Storage (PDF)

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Disaster Planning

• A Disaster Plan for Libraries and Archives. Amigos Library Services, Inc.
• Disaster Planning. Technical Leaflet 3. Northeast Document Conservation Center.
• Emergency Manual and Disaster Plan. University of Wisconsin at Platteville.
• Workbook for Developing a Disaster Plan. Lisa Fox, Library of Virginia, Records
  Management and Imaging Services Division.
• Western New York Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Manual for Libraries and Archives., rev. ed. 1994.Western New York Library Resources Council.
• Worksheet for Outlining a Disaster Plan. Northeast Document Conservation Center

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Needs Assessment

• Connecticut State Library. Library Space Planning Guide. Hartford, Connecticut, 2002.
• Dahlgren, Anders. Public Library Space Needs: A Planning Outline. Madison, WI:
  Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1998. This publication is
  available in Word 6.0 and PDF from Appendix D: Space Needs worksheet (Excel file) is the automated spreadsheet that calculates space needs for the user.
• Jensen, Mary Louise. Library Space Planning Guide. Hartford, CT: Connecticut State
  Library, 2004.
• Library Research Service. Denver, CO: Resources for Community Analysis.

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Space Planning

• Libris Design, California State Library -- Libris Design is a library facility planning information system which includes a website with recent information on facility planning topics.
• Library Collection Storage, from Libris Design, California State Library. (PDF)
• Designing a Fine Library: Tools from the KLA Standards Committee, The Regional Systems and the Kansas State Library. Roy, Shannon and Roy Bird.Topeka, KS: Kansas State Library, 2001.
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Public Library Architecture by John Moorman and Fred Schlipf.

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Wayfinding

• Wayfinding and Signage in Library Design. from Libris Design, California State Library. (PDF)

Training Session Scenes

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