Ready to Wear or Made to Measure? The Municipal Library of Stuttgart

In Germany, towns and communities are engaged, in an autonomous and conscientious manner, in responsibility for their local libraries. Legal regulation is non-existant, either at a federal or a national level, yet the services and connections offer all the tools for the realisation of norms. The non-obligatory character of these norms offer, however, a liberating place for experiences and innovations. Today and in the future, the public library must contribute with all its resources to the attraction, the brilliance, the charm, the intellectual quality, contemplation and the social riches of a town. The example of Stuttgart shows the fashion in which the innovative and experimental objectives of a public library correspond with those of the town.
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