Inclusione e accessibilità semantica nell'architettura bibliotecaria

Focusing on an idea of accessibility as inclusiveness, this article examines libraries as non-excludable social places able to appeal and greet an increasingly number of users, especially disadvantaged ones. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink ways to plan services and spaces, setting up new strategies in order to boost accessibility of spaces and collections, to involve users in an active way, to make libraries like multipurpose, open, spaces more sensitive to local needs. Architectural and interior design are essential as much as services planning. In this sense, accessibility is interpreted as user-friendliness and semantic accessibility, that concerns communicability of the building, an essential feature in order to make public libraries like “community hub” for their local communities, inclusive and accessible places for all people.