Planning Our Future Libraries: Blueprints for 2025 | Library Design Trends & Innovations for Modern Learning Spaces" （如果原中文标题是："规划我们未来的图书馆：2025蓝图"） 优化后标题： "Designing Future Libraries: 2025 Blueprints & Trends | Modern Learning Space Planning & Innovations for Schools & Communities

This collection of essays offers eight individual visions of what libraries might look like in 2025 based on different theoretical approaches. After an opening chapter by Bonfield that largely just recaps Michael’s Buckland’s 1992 manifesto on redesigning library services before offering a brief overview of the concept of the participatory library, we get chapters on radical trust, free-range librarianship, the necessity of creating a faculty commons in academic libraries, and what funding and international school libraries might look like in the future.The strongest piece, by far, was Rundle’s chapter on free-range librarianship, or the public librarian as park ranger, which outlined not only the concept but the factors necessary to create a successful model program. Conversely, Malcezewski’s reflective chapter on meaningful space in the digital age offers little more than a nostalgic jones for his record collection and the somewhat nebulous takeaway that good design is important, neither of which I’ll argue with but neither of which seems terribly helpful on a practical level. (I’m not even sure what to say about Chrastka’s suggestion that major companies sponsor various library services for theoretical tax breaks, except to wish him good luck with that idea, as he’ll probably need it.)In fact, as a whole, this is not the collection you come to for practicality. This is strictly to get your creative juices flowing as you start gearing up for that long-term strategy meeting with administration, to help you figure out how you might start to foster innovation (Hodge’s chapter on learning to mimic Google’s culture of innovation) or entice faculty into the library (Maloney on the faculty commons as the intellectual heart of the campus). Planning Our Future Libraries is useless as a primer; as a jumping-off point, however, it ain’t half bad.