Discusses methods of utilizing existing buildings to provide library services, including complete renovation of a building structure internally while retaining walls and roof, and temporary use of buildings which serve another purpose. Examples of building conversion methods are included. (Author/MBR)

Five cow barns were recently converted to provide additional space at a residential school farm facility for emotionally disturbed children. Provides pictures and drawings. (Author)

An outgrown library is remodeled and used for administrative offices and classrooms. (Author)

Briefly describes each of 56 exemplary school modernization and renovation projects throughout the U.S. and lists a person at each site to contact for more information. (JG)

Explains, theoretically, how a nonutilized chapel could be remodeled into audiovisual facilities. Provides specific space utilization information. (Author/MF)

An old U.S. Mint building is the answer to a college's search for downtown space and the nucleus of a future 8-acre campus area near the city center. (Author)

With costs of new construction steadily rising, with space on which to build dwindling, and with the growing affection for old, familiar buildings on campus, modernization of available campus space often serves as the answer to meet space needs. (Author/DN)

In recent times, adequate space for education has become critical and fewer dollars are available for new school construction. Recently built facilities are sometimes overcrowded and often lack the flexibility to respond to new concepts of educational programing. As a result, planners are turning to other means for solving critical space needs…

Describes two award-winning school remodeling projects. (DN)

Residential, commercial, and industrial shifts in urban and suburban areas have left many large, solidly built structures vacant. Such structures are often convertible to educational uses at a cost far below that of constructing an equivalent facility new. Explains how administrators can find and adapt such found space; provides some useful…

This is the fourth of seven articles to address the problem of what higher education can do to meet the space needs of new programs and a wider constituency, without resorting to new building. One way to meet space needs is to prospect for available space off campus and by means of rehabilitation or major conversion, to adapt this space to…

This extensive bibliography on library building includes 15 categories: bibliography; background; general; planning teams; building programs; alternatives to new buildings; academic libraries; public libraries; school libraries; special libraries; site selection; interior planning and equipment; maintenance; security; and moving. (MES)