Category Archives: information commons

A Place For Learning: Re-Thinking Academic Library Buildings

April 22, 2009 – 11:26 am

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Presented by the Scottish Academic Libraries Co-operative Training Group and UC&R Scotland.
Chris Backler Roving at Dundee University Library: delivering services in a new learning space
Sheila Cannell The impact of digital services on the design of academic library buildings
Alex Hunt The Information Commons: yesterday, today and tomorrow
Andrew McDonald Creating learning spaces [...]

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Emerging Learning Spaces

November 11, 2008 – 7:24 am

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The library information commons. Technology-enhanced classrooms for projecting multimedia. Labs to support team-based projects and student-generated content. These examples continue to inform campus learning space design decisions. Best practices from these spaces can also point to strategies for assessing next-generation space needs and designing discipline-specific spaces and might help us understand effective design in virtual [...]

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Bringing the Information Commons Home

November 11, 2008 – 7:22 am

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The $50M Sheffield University Information Commons embodies new thinking about learning space design. It also encourages new thinking about the design of learning spaces and facilitation of learning by embedding a nationally funded learning development and research center in a university. How does it work? And why is it the first information commons in the [...]

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