Title:"Shelf Life -- Using a Business Alliance to Create an Innovative Library Space"
Presenters: William Brahms, Branch Manager, M. Allan Vogelson Regional Branch Library, Camden County Library System..
Abstract: The Camden County Library System has partnered in an experimental project by creating a library annex in a local shopping mall. The model for the space is a retail-store concept in terms of merchandising, staffing, use of space and appearance. There are no "shelves" in shelf life but lots of slatwall, spinners, librarian artwork, a children’s program area, meeting space and evening a gaming area. Once comfortable in the atmosphere, the user finds that the annex offers the full range of basic library functions.