The document discusses methods for listening to students and planning a student-centered library. It describes the layout of the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center at St. Cloud State University, which includes large reading courts, classrooms with computers, comfortable chairs, study rooms, and a 24-hour coffee shop space to meet students' needs. The library was planned with an unknown future in mind and dissolving walls to create flexible student environments.

1. Visioning a Student-
Centered Library
Quick and Easy Methods for
Listening to Our Students
Presenters:
Michael Gorman, Chris Inkster,
Rich Josephson, Jennifer Quinlan
James W. Miller Learning Resources Center
St. Cloud State University
ARLD Day ~ April 29, 2008

2. Planning the Miller Center
Student Use Environments
Walls Dissolve
Plan for an unknown future
Miller Center opened August 2000

3. Miller Center
Student Use Environments

4. Spaces for Many People
Two reading courts with
almost 300 seats at tables
for 6 or 8 people
Three class-
rooms with 105
computers to
open for busy
computer times

5. Spaces for 1 – 4 People