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A Place For Learning: Re-Thinking Academic Library Buildings

shirley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:26:28 +0000

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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 for the future: some important qualities

Emerging Learning Spaces

shirley — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:24:38 +0000

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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 learning spaces.

Bringing the Information Commons Home

shirley — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:22:42 +0000

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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 United Kingdom?