Nic nie może wiecznie trwać, czyli powrót do starych rozwiązań

Abstract

Nothing lasts forever or back to old ideas. The pr oject for the Toruń University Library building completed in 1973 met modern librarianship tendencies including open stacks. However, the technical possibilities and working conditions of the time had the readers using catalogues and getting lost in a maze of corridors intertwined with reading halls instead of being granted free access to 200 000 volumes in stacks. The original spatial layout was restored and some of the original projects were adapted in 2008. Stacks were introduced thanks to combining modern collection preservation techniques and ideas from the late 1960s. The article discusses the stages of refreshing the old layout and accessibility concepts, as well as how the users received the spatial rearrangement.