The document discusses factors that can make a downtown central library unique and a destination, including "WOW" factors like notable design, gathering spaces, technology, and cafes. It provides examples of libraries with such features, like the Fort Vancouver Main Library in Washington with its atrium coffee shop, teen center, and outdoor terrace. The document also discusses how libraries can be part of mixed-use developments along with other cultural attractions, providing the Rockville Town Center Library and Victoria Gardens Cultural Center as examples.

1. The 21st Century Downtown Library
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2. “WOW” Factors
Emphasize the
Variety of Customer’s Convenient
Gathering Experience Self-Service
Spaces
Welcoming
Noteworthy Comfortable
Design Spaces
Factors that can make your Downtown Central
Library unique, exciting and a true destination
Special Café
Collections Vending
Outdoor Technology
Model of
Library Spaces Learning and
Sustainability
Experience
Lab
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3. The Library as Destination
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4. Inviting and Comfortable Spaces
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5. Functional and Flexible
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6. Technologies
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7. Multi-functional Zoned Children’s Spaces
Pre-school – 6th grade
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8. Teen Spaces
7th – 12th grade
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9. Meeting Rooms of all Sizes and Purposes
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10. Connecting the Inside with the Outside
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11. Fort Vancouver Main Library (WA)
Unique features include:
- Free internet & wifi access
- Public meeting rooms
- Study spaces & reading areas throughout
- Atrium Coffee Corner by Thatcher's
Coffee
- BookNook operated by the Friends
- Teen Central featuring computers, video
•Opened July 17, 2011 games and young adult books and
•Regional destination and downtown magazines
Vancouver's sparkling gem - Early Learning Center, a "play and learn"
• 83,000 square feet environment targeted to ages birth to five
•Funded through voter-approved - Fifth-floor reading room with comfortable
bonds and philanthropy of the Oliva seating and a fireplace
family - Outdoor fifth-floor terrace, offering
•Land for the building contributed by unobstructed views of the city, the
developers George and Lance Killian Columbia River and beyond
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12. Fort Vancouver Main Library (WA)
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13. Fort Vancouver Main Library (WA)
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14. Fort Vancouver Main Library (WA)
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15. Fort Vancouver Main Library (WA)
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16. Mixed-Use Development
Urban Connector
Salt Lake City UT
Central Library
Rockville Town Center Library MD
Victoria Gardens
Cultural Center
Ranch Cucamonga CA
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17. Victoria Gardens Cultural Center (CA)
Victoria Gardens Cultural Center
• Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 2006
• 90,000 SF total area on a 3-acre site
• Comprised of three major components:
library, playhouse, and events center
• 1100 total parking spaces for center and
adjacent downtown retail
Paul A. Biane Library
• 90,000 volume collection
• Four reading rooms
• Library Friends Book & Gift Shop
Lewis Family Playhouse
• 536 seats and a 72-foot fly tower
• 150 Performances in its first season
Celebration Hall
• 4,500 SF of event space
• 1-acre courtyard
• On-site catering facilities
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18. Rockville Town Center (MD)
Rockville Town Center
• Project Site is 12.5 acres
• 22,000 SF public plaza, public
library, VisArts, restaurants, retail, 644
residential units, The Rockville
Innovation Center, and a Rooftop
Terrace
• 973 public and 965 private parking
spaces.
Library
• Opened in November 2006
• Two stories at 71,500 SF
• Third story at 27,000 SF.
• Four stories, including a smaller below-
grade floor.
VisArts and Innovation Center
• VisArts houses International
works, community galleries, children’s
hands-on discovery, studios, event
rooms, catering kitchen, and teaching
labs.
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