ABSTRACT
The developing role of the library has created a set of new and complex
challenges for those delivering library buildings and services. The
libraries of the twenty-first century are no longer simply familiar repo-
sitories for books. They have changed and expanded, been rethought
and redesigned. Libraries now provide an increasingly wider range of
different services, using a multitude of media, and reach a more diverse
audience than ever before; see Table I and image 29.1.
