The goals of this study and project are in line with BPL’s Compass principles of Community Gathering, Children & Teens, and Sustainable Organization. They include:
1. Enriched library services and user experience
- Improved user services through better access and adjacencies
- Collections thoughtfully presented and accessible to meet demand
- Expanded and improved youth services through reimagined children’s library and teen room
- Expanded engagement opportunities through new functional spaces such as a conference center, “living room,” and potential commercial-use space
2. Improved visitor first impression
- Improved exterior transparency and engagement, with clear paths and intuitive wayfinding
- Reinvigorated entrance and lobby, and connection to the streetscape
3. Positive financial impact for BPL
- Leveraging of public investment with private investment
- Optimal and maximum use of the existing physical asset
- Revenue generation and cost sharing from commercial tenants
- Leveraging benefit of previously-deferred maintenance projects to support library service improvements
Tags: Back Bay, Children and Teens, Community Gathering, Copley Square, Sustainable Organization