Attracting and Engaging Young Adults to the Westfriese Libraries

Libraries play a central role in society, a gateway to knowledge, culture and learning. But recently libraries have seemed to fall out of fashion, especially with young adults. Libraries have had a tough time with a streak of budget cuts, whilst adapting to many innovations and changes. This alone may make it hard for a library to keep up, but...

Creating a richer library experience for adolescents

This reports describes a designed user experience for young adults in the public library of Delft (DOK). The experience is based on moveable furniture that is digitally connected with each other via a music application. Youngsters can share music with their friends, realtime, within the library. A 'lyrics tool' in the application makes it...