The document discusses why new learning spaces are needed at universities. It notes that new learning spaces should support the university's strategic theme of enhancing the student learning experience and support the new 4-year curriculum. New learning spaces are also needed due to the evolution of academic libraries, with collections moving from print to digital. Students now have changing preferences and learning styles and more technology is being used in learning. New learning spaces need to be flexible, future-proofed, bold, creative, supportive, and enterprising to accommodate evolving pedagogies and reconfiguration of space.