LIBRARY AS URBAN LIVING ROOM DESIGNING YOGYAKARTA PUBLIC LIBRARY

• Main Author: Anam, Fikri
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Arsitektur
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/42844
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The fast forward advancement of media and information has reached at the point where development cannot be predicted anymore. Today, people can access information from anywhere and anytime. This condition threatens the existence of libraries, the place that used to be the main place where people access media and information is now being questioned again by its relevance. The library in its history turned out to have undergone a change of function and purpose. Jan Assmann in Building for Book (2001) describes how the library typology has a tendency to be changed by its community in accordance with the culture and control of the community itself. There is a time when the development of library typology seems to stop because the progress of information access makes this typology seem as if it is no longer needed by the public. The community paradigm of libraries in Indonesia that is identical to archiving makes the interest of the public to visit the library decreases. On the other hand, developing information technology that is developing very rapidly raises a problem where there is no control and lack of ethics to the information conveyed. The library raises expectations where the place becomes a source of knowledge and media collected and selected well, anticipating disruption of information that is not desired by the community. Technology should not be a threat, but as a new alternative to designing a library that fits the context of the times. The Yogyakarta City Archives and Library Office, which holds responsibility for library progression in 'kota pelajar', is considered capable and has the potential to give the community a new paradigm of what is called a modern library. The concept of a library that adjusts information and literacy needs in accordance with the context of the era as well as a space for social and cultural activities for the people.