Research libraries collection spaces construction design standard [the new york public library (nypl) requests $176,100 to create the research libraries collection spaces construction design…

The New York Public Library (NYPL) received a $167,683 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to create a Research Libraries Collection Spaces Construction Design Standard (RLDS).

The RLDS will establish design standards to guide the construction and renovation of over 560,000 square feet of collections storage, reading rooms, and workspaces across NYPL's three research centers and library services center. The goal is to maximize environmental sustainability, resilience, and safety while achieving modern preservation environments. The RLDS will have significant benefits for the field, providing a construction design standard that peer institutions can apply to create resilient and sustainable preservation environments. NYPL will offer the RLDS through a webinar and as a PDF resource. The project period runs from November 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026.

Research libraries collection spaces construction design standard [the new york public library (nypl) requests $176,100 to create the research libraries collection spaces construction design standard (rlds) to direct the design of all future collections storage, reading room, and collections workspace construction or renovation projects across 560,000 square feet of research library space, focusing on the library?s three research centers: the stephen a. Schwarzman building, the new york public library for the performing arts, and the schomburg center for research in black culture as well as nypl's library services center (LSC). The rlds will focus nypl?s capital investments to maximize environmental sustainability, resilience, and safety while achieving modern preservation environments; IT will have significant benefits for the field, creating a construction design standard that peer institutions can apply to create resilient and sustainable preservation environments that will be offered readily through a webinar and as a PDF resource.]