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A Year or Two Later: The UW Libraries Research Commons
The document discusses the evolution of the UW Libraries Research Commons, highlighting new service delivery models and the impact of decreasing on-site use by graduate students and faculty. It emphasizes the importance of digital resources, interdisciplinary collaboration, and flexible space design for research support. The reflections include lessons learned about the balance between informal and formal uses of space and enhancing partnerships within the library's role.
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A Year or Two Later: The UW Libraries Research Commons
- 1. A Year orTwo Later: The UW Libraries Research Commons Lauren Ray, Research Commons Librarian
- 2. • New Modelsof Service Delivery (branch consolidation, service beyond desk) • Decrease in on-site use by graduate students and faculty • High dependence on digital resources • Deteriorating budget climate • UWIT Designing Learning Spaces Report • Early 2010 - Provost invests $315K Evolution
- 3. • Foster interdisciplinaryconversations • Hub of research support • Experimental, flexible, evolving • Research display and presentation Research Commons Vision
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- 9. • Iterative design,flexibility, risk taking • Investigate service provision in space design • Balance space design for informal & formal use • Platform for highlighting relationship with partners and “library” role Lessons Learned
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- 11. Investigate Service Provisionin Space Design
- 12. Balance design forinformal/formal use
- 13. Balance design forinformal/formal use
- 14. Platform for highlightingpartnerships
- 15. Platform for highlightingrole of “library”
- 16. Thank You Lauren Ray,Research Commons Librarian olray@uw.edu commons.lib.washington.edu uwresearchcommons.wordpress.com/
Editor's Notes
- #5 Funding and Renovation Timeline $315K Provost Investment, DLR Group (charette, design), Research Commons Librarian, Renovation (carpet, paint, flexible furniture)
- #9 What our assessments told us: People like the kind of space we’ve designed Majority of users are undergraduates, wide range of disciplines Users stay longer Create their own space Don't utilize in-person reference assistance
- #11 Keep Tech Simple and Adaptable Consider Noise Adjacencies Early On
- #13 Equipment and Furniture must work for formal and informal use cases. Expect heavy use: Users want the inds of spaces we are designing. Increases number of people in the space and then you must deal with Design based on data and be prepared for heavy use.
- #14 Equipment and Furniture must work for formal and informal use cases. Expect heavy use: Users want the inds of spaces we are designing. Increases number of people in the space and then you must deal with
- #15 Consider Noise Adjacencies Early On Transitioning heavily used spaces for programming takes staff time.
- #16 Modeling the kinds of behavior we want to see in the space.