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CILIP mentor becomes BIALL’s new president
CHARTERED Librarian and CILIP mentor Diane Miller has become President of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). Diane, who mentors CILIP’s Profes- sional Registration candidates for both the library and KM chartership routes, is a senior member of the Information and Library Services team at international law firm Gowling WLG. Her current role covers a range of content and knowl- edge management activities, but focuses
on legal and business research, collection management, training and innovative cur- rent awareness solutions. She has worked in the legal infor mation sector for over 25 years.
Diane has worked for many years as a BIALL volunteer, and has been involved in many aspects of the organisation’s work, including acting as Chair of the Publicity and Promotions Committee and being part of the Professional Skills Framework Work- ing Group. BIALL has over 500 members, both personal and institutional, who work
across the legal sector and promotes bet- ter management of law libraries and legal information units in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Diane said: “I would like to thank Catherine
Bowl (now Immediate Past President) for doing a great job as President and I am very honoured to be following her in this prestigious role. I am particularly looking forward to working alongside our fantastic volunteers and encouraging our members to participate in the Association’s activities during my year as President.”
College Library in line for prestigious architecture award
THE New Library at Cambridge University’s Magdalene College is the latest in a long line of architec- tural gems to be honoured by RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Archi- tects.
A number of library buildings have made it on to RIBA’s prestigious shortlist for the Stirling Prize over the years. Two libraries have won the award in previous years, including last year when Kingston University’s innovative approach to library and community space, Town House, headed the shortlist. Peckham Public Library picked up the title in 2000. The New Library is now looking to emulate those winners, having already won in the RIBA East Award 2022 and RIBA National Award 2022. The brief for Niall McLaughlin Archi- tects was to create a college library with a lifespan of 400 years. The library replaces one which was gifted to Magdalene 300 years ago by Samuel Pepys.
RIBA describe the library as combining “load-bearing brickwork with exquisitely detailed horizontal engineered timber structure to establish a lofty, surprisingly vertical space with a complex three-di-
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mensional tartan grid. The library draws on familiar predilections from previous McLaughlin projects – the references to Louis Kahn’s handling of oak panelled win- dow assemblies for example, via the housing for Somerville College, Oxford – while also creating something wholly particular within the setting of the wider college. As with the best of the Cambridge’s many libraries, a great diversity of spaces to read and work are established, and reflecting its planned longevity, the building feels nicely slack – bookshelves are barely half filled and an extraordinary sense of space pervades, like inhabiting a hugely luxurious treehouse.” Sustainability is a core requirement for the building – not just through its longevity, but also in its every-day use. RIBA adds: “The design of this library has been strongly influ- enced by the requirements to passively light (characterised by the roof lanterns), and natu- rally ventilate the spaces (characterised by the stack effect ventilation chimneys and open- ings in the roof). Overall, the project presents exceptional engagement with environmental design principles. The predicted energy per- formance as a result exceeds the RIBA 2030 benchmark to be one of the best performing buildings of this year’s submissions. The pro-
ject is also one of the top submissions in terms of whole-life carbon considerations, and has addressed the RIBA 2025 benchmark.”
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The New Library, Magdalene College. Photo © Nick Kane
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