The DOK Library Concept Centre was the library on the tour that I was most looking forward to. When planning the new Cummings Library and Collaboratory, I used DOK as inspiration! After seeing DOK in person, I realized we actually could have gone much, much bolder at Mohawk!
Serving a population of 100,000, DOK Library Concept Centre's mission is to become and remain the most advanced library in the world - Library 3.0! To that end, they are very forward, open, innovative and responsive to the community, technology, the digital world and the concept of "library".
Colour is the name of the game in this library! The furniture is fun, brave and gutsy! Services are bold and brash! Books, music, technology, local history, storytelling, art - all things cultural are celebrated and available in/through the library! DOK is proud of who they are, and clearly, the community is proud of DOK. The most amazing aha I had was that DOK isn't really all that terribly different from many libraries, it just presents itself so much more audaciously!
Because a picture is worth a thousand words, check out all of the pictures posted by The Shifted Librarian on a very comprehensive Flickr slideshow of DOK. Here are a few of my own photos:
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