Presentation and Q&A with a focus on partnership working in planning the new building.
Neal Buchanan, Campus Librarian (Ayr), University of the West of Scotland
Slides used by Dr Lee Crooks, University of Sheffield, at the Big Local ‘Shops, hubs and empty buildings show and tell’ event, organised as part of the Local Trust programme of networking and learning events for Big Local residents. The event took place on Wednesday 2 September 2015.
A presentation based on the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) policy briefing, "Libraries connecting people and communities", http://www.lovescottishlibraries.org.
Slides used by Dr Lee Crooks, University of Sheffield, at the Big Local ‘Shops, hubs and empty buildings show and tell’ event, organised as part of the Local Trust programme of networking and learning events for Big Local residents. The event took place on Wednesday 2 September 2015.
A presentation based on the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) policy briefing, "Libraries connecting people and communities", http://www.lovescottishlibraries.org.
A slideshow based on Libraries: Connecting people and communities, a policy briefing for libraries created by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). Created for the Scottish Excellence Awards held at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 18th January 2011.
In Sally Walker's keynote, she talks about her career and work at Orkney Library to being awarded the honour of Scotland’s first Library & Information Professional of the year 2017. Sally will discuss some of the initiatives in which she is involved such as Bookbug, Lego & Minecraft and her work with schools. She also explores how she engages with children, encouraging them and their families, to use the library. Inspiring others to believe anything is possible if you have a passion for your work and are somewhere you can shine.
ESERO Space Education ASE presentation January 2015SLCS-online
Tom Lyon, ESERO-UK Teacher fellow delivered this presentation on using space as a teaching resource and recent successes at ASE 2015.
Some useful links from the slides are:
Space teaching resources: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/timpeake
How the solar system was formed: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/resource/1922/birth-of-the-solar-system
The National STEM Centre has over 8,000 teaching resources (http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/) freely available to teachers of STEM subjects following a simple registration.
Oliver Pritchard and Kirsten Black - Service convergence at Sunderlandsconul
SCONUL Conference 20-21 June 2013, Dublin
Workshop - Service Convergence – Values, Culture and Change, with Oliver Pritchard, Assistant Director, Student and Learning Support and Kirsten Black, Director, Student and Learning Support, University of Sunderland.
Re-Design of Tanjungpura University LibraryZahrul Basimah
This is my third semester assignment in Department of Architecture Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak Kalimantan Barat. I also had presented this presentation on Seminar which held by SCENE (Science and Engineering Expedition) and UNIMAS (University Malaysia Sarawak) at Sarawak,Malaysia. This is a presentation about Re-design of Tanjungpura University Library with "Learning Library" as the concept. This concept is based on human learning style such as Audio Learning, Visual Learning and Kinesthetic Learning.
The following report was prepared by us, a group of diploma students for our assignment on college library. it shows and explains various sections of a typical college library and the process. Hope you find it helpful :)
A slideshow based on Libraries: Connecting people and communities, a policy briefing for libraries created by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). Created for the Scottish Excellence Awards held at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 18th January 2011.
In Sally Walker's keynote, she talks about her career and work at Orkney Library to being awarded the honour of Scotland’s first Library & Information Professional of the year 2017. Sally will discuss some of the initiatives in which she is involved such as Bookbug, Lego & Minecraft and her work with schools. She also explores how she engages with children, encouraging them and their families, to use the library. Inspiring others to believe anything is possible if you have a passion for your work and are somewhere you can shine.
ESERO Space Education ASE presentation January 2015SLCS-online
Tom Lyon, ESERO-UK Teacher fellow delivered this presentation on using space as a teaching resource and recent successes at ASE 2015.
Some useful links from the slides are:
Space teaching resources: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/timpeake
How the solar system was formed: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/resource/1922/birth-of-the-solar-system
The National STEM Centre has over 8,000 teaching resources (http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/) freely available to teachers of STEM subjects following a simple registration.
Oliver Pritchard and Kirsten Black - Service convergence at Sunderlandsconul
SCONUL Conference 20-21 June 2013, Dublin
Workshop - Service Convergence – Values, Culture and Change, with Oliver Pritchard, Assistant Director, Student and Learning Support and Kirsten Black, Director, Student and Learning Support, University of Sunderland.
Re-Design of Tanjungpura University LibraryZahrul Basimah
This is my third semester assignment in Department of Architecture Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak Kalimantan Barat. I also had presented this presentation on Seminar which held by SCENE (Science and Engineering Expedition) and UNIMAS (University Malaysia Sarawak) at Sarawak,Malaysia. This is a presentation about Re-design of Tanjungpura University Library with "Learning Library" as the concept. This concept is based on human learning style such as Audio Learning, Visual Learning and Kinesthetic Learning.
The following report was prepared by us, a group of diploma students for our assignment on college library. it shows and explains various sections of a typical college library and the process. Hope you find it helpful :)
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This slide show is in conjunction with my design portfolio. This showcases my Thesis project as a cumulative example of the variation in acquired skills, and practices.
FINAL B.ARCH THESIS PRESENTATION IIT ROORKEE:
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Speakers: Benjamin Meunier; Can libraries afford to wait for others to fix the world while toxic waste, climate change and pollution harm our environment? How much of a difference can we make anyway? This webinar will aim to raise ambitions for greener library buildings, provide examples of how library services can lead by example as sustainably managed organisations and highlight the opportunities to work in partnership with users to work together and move towards a smarter, sustainable world. The presentation will draw on examples from Europe and Hong Kong to illustrate good practice in academic libraries, covering library building design, communication with users and applications of management information to improve sustainability. Spoiler alert – whilst this webinar may not have all the answers to the questions above, the conclusions will suggest there is hope.
Ayr Library, University of the West of Scotland and SRUCsconul
Presentation and Q&A with a focus on partnership working in planning the new building.
Neal Buchanan, Campus Librarian (Ayr), University of the West of Scotland
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Presentation depicts how a new school of architecture set up in Bangalore started last year on the plank of sustainability is responding to sustainability concerns that are gaining importance.
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Beyond the Boundaries: Academic Library Co-Operation in Scotland. Gillian Anderson. Twin Cities Conference: Innovation into Practise- New Service Concepts, Helsinki and Turku, Finland, 13-16 May 2009
Vibrant libraries, thriving schools - the national strategy for school librariesCILIPScotland
Martina McChrystal, Chair of Advisory Group and Director of Library Services, University of Glasgow
Lee-Anne Connor, Chair of School Libraries Group Scotland, SLRC Manager Chryston High School
The macrame of scholarly training - collecting the cords that bind Danny Kingsley
Presentation made to Enabling a Modern Curriculum Conference, 8 September 2022. #EMCconference2022
This talk addresses a significant gap in researcher training. The ‘craft’ of the research process encompasses the skills and knowledge beyond discipline specificity and despite being an essential aspect of research success is not addressed in a systematic and strategic way across the sector. Often the responsibility for this type of training falls on the shoulders of librarians - but who is responsible for training the trainers?
Without an agreed curriculum of what skills and knowledge should be included in this type of researcher training, it is very difficult to develop training programs. And if libraries are at least partly responsible for providing this training, it is difficult to identify the skills to recruit for in our staff.
The number of advertised library positions directly associated with scholarly communication has exponentially increased in the US and UK over the past decade. However, in Australia, until very recently many of these skills were not acknowledged as an essential part of librarianship by ALIA. A recent study of Australasian librarians indicated that scholarly communication skills are primarily obtained through self-directed learning. The oversubscription to the recent OA101 course from OA Australasia speaks to the huge need.
We need to strategically identify what should be teaching our emerging researchers ‘beyond their discipline’. In doing so we can also identify the skills and knowledge our library community should possess to ensure we are able to meet these needs and future-proof the profession.
This issue reaches beyond the library, and is an opportunity to engage with colleagues in the research office and bind the cords of community groups such as AIMOS, ANZORN and OA Australasia. We cannot enable a modern curriculum until we identify one, and this poses an opportunity for libraries to lead our sector towards a more strategic coherent and successful future.
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SCONUL Summer Conference 2019 - Dr Tamsin Burlandsconul
Jisc fringe: the future of managing research outputs by Dr Tamsin Burland, Senior co-design manager, Digital Futures, Jisc.
The need to have oversight and manage the whole portfolio of research outputs (articles, data, theses, software etc.) is becoming more pressing for universities. This is in part driven by funder mandates (including Plan S), but also by open research initiatives, such as FAIR and guidelines for new generation repositories. In this workshop, Dr Tasmin Burland feeds back to the sector on recent outreach work undertaken by Jisc on research data management and open access practices. She presented Jisc’s current and planned development work around repositories. She also looked at current open access workflows and pain points, discussed what was required as we transition to new practices and systems, and invited input from practitioners.
OCLC fringe: The costs of "open" - preliminary results from a global OCLC survey led by Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Manager, OCLC Research.
Despite growing support for Open Science, Open Access, and Open Government Information, measures of impact, investment, and cost for libraries and research organisations remain largely unknown. In order to better understand this landscape, OCLC conducted a survey in 2018 that focused on libraries’ ambitions, realities, and investments in support of open content. This survey represents a significant early effort to qualify and quantify library efforts in the field of open content at an international scale, and it collected data on library open content activities across multiple internal silos, including: e-resources management, institutional repositories, CRIS systems, digitised heritage collections, data archives, born-digital (legal) deposit, and more. The survey received more than 700 responses from 82 countries, with 72 percent of the responses coming from research and library institutions, providing a rich sample.
In this presentation, OCLC examines definitions of “open” and shares preliminary findings on library investments, assessments and planning, leading participants in a discussion about the implications for our global and connected future, as well as opportunities for collective action.
SCONUL Summer Conference 2019 - David Sweeneysconul
Keynote: National and international collaboration on the cost of content and open access by David Sweeney, Executive Chair, Research England.
David's talk highlights Research England’s approach to research collaboration, impact, and Plan S and the role libraries can play in moving to a fully open access world.
The British Library fringe: UK Research Reserve led by Alison Selina & Suzi Robinson
The collaboration between the British Library and UK He and (formerly) the Higher Education Funding Council for England set the ambition target of saving 100km of shelf space within university libraries by de-duplicating print journals on the premise that a master, accessible copy is held within the British Library.
The eleven year project has subsequently delivered 128km of library shelf space amounting to circa £23 million capital saving and circa £2.2 million operational savings p.a. and is now preparing to transition to a British Library run service. This presentation sets out what next for UKRR.
SCONUL Summer Conference 2019 - Regina Everitt, Caroline Taylor and Dr Mohamm...sconul
Workforce Development Task & Finish Group: The experience of BAME staff working in SCONUL member libraries led by Regina Everitt, Caroline Taylor and Dr Mohammed Ishaq.
The lack of ethnic diversity bot in the HE sector and in the library profession is well documented. SCONUL, led by our Board, want to work with our membersto bring about change and to support them in the endeavours to increase the diversity of their staff.
This presentation highlights the experiences of BAME staff working in our member libraries. It allows members to hear the experiences of BAME staff which they may not otherwise be privy to and will help open up discussions on how to make change happen.
SCONUL Summer Conference 2019 - Liz Waller & Nick Barrattsconul
Collaboration group: AI for libraries: use cases and value propositions led by Liz Waller & Nick Barratt
Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) promise significant opportunities for academic libraries and have the potential to impact on virtually every aspect of libraries' work. SCONUL is proposing to undertake a two year project exploring how member libraries can capitalise on the potential AI has to offer,
European Universities roles in fostering Open Science - Lidia Borrell-Damián, Director for Research and Innovation, European University Association
Lidia's talk focused on the open access agenda and how we might collectively work together on the implementation of Plan S.
SCONUL Summer Conference 2019 - Svein Arne Brygfjeldsconul
Artificial intelligence @ the National Library of Norway - Svein Arne Brygfjeld, National Library of Norway
Svein Arne highlighted the work of the National Library of Norway and how one of their latest projects is successfully converting analogue media to digital form, while integrating different media collections together so that users can discover and access a range of resources on specific topics online.
Keynote: Act deliberately and preserve things. Academic Libraries in an age of artificial intelligence
Nicole Coleman, Digital Research Architect, Stanford University Libraries and Research Director, Humanities + Design
SCONUL Summer Conference 2018 - Simon Walkersconul
Provocations: Emerging trends in digital humanities and digital learning environments
Shift happens – higher education in the post digital age
Simon Walker, Head of Educational Development, University of Greenwich
Keynote: An Open Revolution - How we can rewrite the rules of the information age
Dr Rufus Pollock, President & Founder, Open Knowledge International and Principal, Datopian
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Ayr Library, University of the West of Scotland and SRUC PPT
1. SCONUL Library Design Award 2013
Winners
Ayr Library
University of the West of Scotland
(UWS)
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
2. Partnership
“Collaboration and
maximising the effective
use of resources:
Institutions need to work
well individually and
collectively if they are to
make best use of the
resources – human and
physical – available to
them.”
(Scottish Executive, 2003)
11. • The old UWS campus was nearing its end of life;
• The old UWS campus was also no longer fit for
purpose, in fabric and academic terms;
• High energy costs associated with old UWS campus
were a drain on resources
14. Library Collaboration - 2006
Shared
Requirements
No intrusive pillars or stairs
Clear pathway to Service Desk
Flexible space
Ease of access for all users, staff,
deliveries, etc.
15. Library Collaboration - 2006
Shared
Requirements
No intrusive pillars or stairs
Clear pathway to Service Desk
Flexible space
Ease of access for all users, staff,
deliveries, etc.
17. Library Collaboration – 2009/11
UWS/SRUC
6weekly meetings
with Space
Designer
Library staff input
on Service
Desk/layout
Staff info sessions
with Space
Designer
UWS/SRUC
Librarians at
project meetings
Regular liaison with
Project Manager
Joint attendance
at fact-finding &
site visits
18. Library Collaboration –
Shared Space
Integrated
work
area – seamless
service
Integrated
collection
PC Access
LMS (Talis)
Librarians’ Office
Thank you to SCONUL for awarding UWS and SRUC with the library design award in the small library category.I’ve been asked to talk a bit about the partnership work undertaken by UWS and SRUC in the planning of the new campus building at Ayr. I’ll give a bit of historic background first and then talk about how we worked together.Briefly, the two institutions worked together for over five years to ensure that Ayrshire gained a modern, fit for purpose higher education facility.NB: The University of the West of Scotland was formed in 2007 by the merger of the University of Paisley and Bell College, Hamilton. SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College) changed its name from SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) in 2012.
In the early 21st century, the political landscape in Scotland was very much geared towards higher education institutions collaborating with one another.As can be seen from this quote from the Scottish Executive:“Collaboration and maximising the effective use of resources: Institutions need to work well individually and collectively if they are to make best use of the resources – human and physical – available to them.” Scottish Executive, A framework for higher education in Scotland: higher education review: phase 2, Edinburgh: Stationery Office (2003), p. 54
This theme continued during the noughties, especially after the “credit crunch” of 2008:Higher education institutions “must […] prioritise collaboration and co-operation between themselves and with other sectors.”Scottish Government, Building a smarter future: towards a sustainable Scottish solution for the future of higher education, [Edinburgh]: Scottish Government (2010), p. 4It was the case that SRUC and UWS planned to pool resources for Ayr as far back as 2004. Funding was not available at that time, but by 2006 the wheels were in motion to create the Ayr campus as we know it today.
I’m going to take you back in time now, back to prehistory – the 1960s. I’m going to focus on the UWS side of the story here, but SRUC’s is similar.The government had identified a shortage of teachers in Scotland in the 1960s and so decided to build three new teacher training colleges to meet demand: Falkirk, Hamilton and Ayr. The Ayr college was known as Craigie College of Education, as it was located in the Craigie area of Ayr.
As you can see from this photograph from 1970, Craigie College was made primarily from wood and glass.The building was temporary and had a life expectancy of, depending on who you asked, 10, 20 or 60 years.Given that the west of Scotland is one of the wettest regions in Western Europe, my money would have been on 10 years.
I’m not the only one to have considered this the most likely figure. This gentleman here is Tom Greig. He started work at Craigie in 1970. He told me that on his first day the janitor came to him and told him that he shouldn’t get too comfortable as the building would be falling down around his feet in four years’ time.The University of Paisley’s Business Case for a new build in 2006 considered that it had originally been given a 20 year lifespan.When the college was under threat of closure in the late 1970s, Hector Monro, MP for Dumfries, bandied about the figure of 60 years (so long as the building was maintained properly) in the House of Commons.How long is a piece of string?
Let’s get back into our time machine and head to 1964. The first students arrived in August ’64 after a build period of some 10 months. As you can see, they were all bubbly with enthusiasm to be in their fantastic new wooden hut.And they were all a little brown and grey too.
The library in the college was very much what we’d call now a traditional library.Lots of shelves, books, atlases, studious patrons and a fearsome librarian guarding the entrance.You’ll also notice a pillar every two metres or so. The old UWS library had more rotten columns than Richard Littlejohn.
Moving forward 6 years, and you can see that not much has changed for these groovy cats.Still lots of pillars, still a fearsome librarian, but gone are the grey and brown uniforms.What is clear, however, even in this old picture, is that the building seems in pretty good nick.
And you can see from the group study facilities that it’s hardly possible to fit more people around such a small table.
So that’s Craigie College in its heyday.At the start of the 21st century the building was falling to pieces.It was no longer fit for purpose, either in fabric or academic terms.Its high energy costs were a drain on resources.
From a library perspective you can see here the damage caused by water ingress.In the image on the left you can see what the staff referred to as the waterfall. Every time it rained heavily water would pour down this pillar onto the display area below.In the image on the right the windows looked directly out onto a flat roof. When it rained the water would sit in pools against the library wall and seep through the walls.
Which brings me back to partnership. SRUC were experiencing similar issues in their Auchincruive campus (which is just outside of Ayr).By 2006 UWS and SRUC had got together to build a joint, higher education facility in Ayr, to the southwest of the old Craigie College site. This building would bring together the academic and support activities of both institutions under one roof. This included lecture theatres, labs, a gym hall and, yes, a library.
The first meeting of the SRUC and UWS librarians with the architects to discuss the new library project was in 2006 (which was before my time – I started at Ayr in 2008).The librarians involved knew one another already from Ayrshire Libraries Forum meetings and other networking opportunities.Their experiences in their old, decaying buildings were similar, so they identified a set of shared requirements:No intrusive pillars or stairsClear pathway to the service deskFlexible spaceEase of access for all users, staff, deliveries, etc.The architects went off to draft up some plans, and what did they come back with?
A great big set of stairs, bang in the middle of the library.The librarians stood their ground, however, and by the time the second draft came round the stairs were gone.
parallel development during this time was the move of the UWS Library at Dumfries from an old sandstone building to the local college’s brand new building.UWS’s experience here informed how we worked with our partners in the Ayr build. Librarian input was minimal during the Dumfries project, so the UWS Librarian requested that a library consultant was involved in the project. Library Services (Scotland) performed this role during this period and produced draft plans for the library space by Xmas 2008.
In December 2008 the UWS Librarian appointed a Campus Librarian at Ayr (me). One aspect of my new role was to lead for the library in the new build project. Elaine Muir (SRUC Librarian) was a great help as I found my feet in the role and we soon established various methods to ensure that both of our voices were heard:UWS/SRUC 6-weekly meetings with Space DesignerLibrary staff input on Service Desk/layoutStaff info sessions with Space DesignerUWS/SRUC Librarians at project meetingsRegular liaison with Project ManagerJoint attendance at fact-finding & site visitsGiven that we were now so involved in the project, it was decided that a library consultant was no longer needed.
So what exactly did we decide that the institutions should share in the new library?Integrated work area: all of our library assistants work behind the same service desk, meaning that our students experience a seamless service;Integrated collection: both institutions use Dewey, so we decided to interfile our book collections to present to our students one seamless collection;PC access: both UWS and SRUC students access their own institutions’ networks via the same PC interface. They simply click on the appropriate logo to access their own resources;LMS: both institutions used Talis pre-2011. We decided that we should merge systems so that students had a seamless online catalogue experience. This was not without challenges, since our five other campuses (3 UWS and 2 SRUC) had to be involved here;Librarians’ Office: Elaine and I share an office!
The building opened in August 2011, but our work together did not stop then.We have a partnership agreement for the library at Ayr to ensure that we have a similar understanding of the service that we provide to both sets of students.We have joint monthly library staff meetings so that we can share our thoughts and ideas about how we develop the service.Rowan Partnership: the experience of merging Talis systems led us to work with the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) on a joint LMS project. UWS and SRUC now share UHI’s Millennium LMS, with a view to learning lessons for a possible Scotland-wide HE LMS solution - although we note that our colleagues in Wales beat us to it .Elaine and I still share an office
So what have we learned from all this?What did we learn about partnership working when planning a new library build?Build positive library relationships – network!Involve & inform all library staffUnited frontFight your cornerAccept compromise