Re-imagining the university library – a transformative opportunity

The past twenty years have seen transformative change in academic library design. This paper describes the development of the Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick (UL) in Ireland. The present library was designed in two phases with a student-focused 1998 design iteration and a 2018 development that adopted emerging technologies to enable knowledge creation and facilitate data-intensive research and digital scholarship. The paper explores the collaboration undertaken in terms of the space, design process and service development.