Aaron Cohen Associates Ltd Employee Directory

LibrariesUnited States2-10 Employees

We are library consultants, designers and facility planners. We recommend and facilitate planning activities for large and small building projects as program consultants. We worked on over 500 planning projects, creating 40 years of library research documentation and visual schematics. We have develop guidelines for academic and government libraries. We have developed ARS systems and master facilities plans for systems, urban libraries, and community libraries. We have helped librarians improve their planning efforts for many different types of libraries  academic libraries, public libraries, medical, law and government and special. Our library consultants are technology specialists who provide efficient and effective designs including Mixed Media, video, lighting, LEED and Green Designs. We work with facility planners, administration and IT managers as an integrated team. Our international experience includes the 14 years consulting for the National Library of Singapore, 10 years consulting for New York Public Library, 8 years working for the University of Illinois, Chicago, 10 years working for Long Island University (CW post). We have performed over 500 workshops on library space planning. These include: Stanford University, Northeastern University, New Orleans Public Library, Federal Library and Information Center (LOC) and Infopeople workshops. Library building workshops include ebook research, automation, technical services, acquisitions, management and studies on the library of the future. Our library consultants use a solid methodology to provide for sound decisionmaking. The outcomes from our work include physical and technical design solutions. For example, we developed new combinations of library services and technology centers. It was a multiyear master planning framework that included distance learning, automation, succession planning, staff workflows, master planning. It included options for the library management to consider. Indeed, the building requirements for a library can be complex. Our clients benefit from past research; library building, library service planning, efficiency studies and organizational development.

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