This presentation was made at the 2014 IFLA Information Literacy (IL) satellite meeting, 14-15 august held in Limerick Ireland. My paper was a case study on the management of an eLearning project at UCD Library. The project is on going and it aims to meet the learning needs of the students.
This presentation was made at the 2014 IFLA Information Literacy (IL) satellite meeting, 14-15 august held in Limerick Ireland. My paper was a case study on the management of an eLearning project at UCD Library. The project is on going and it aims to meet the learning needs of the students.
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Embedded Librarianship, Open Educatiional Resources, and AI for LibrariesIsmail Fahmi
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Members' Sharing Session presentation delivered by Mark Tynan and Lorraine Foster at the 2009 BBSLG Conference hosted by the Irish Management Institute, 1-3 July 2009.
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Ask any twenty-first century librarian and they will tell you that the traditional chalkboard is not the instructional tool of choice anymore. This panel discussion will address the place of free and subscription e-resources in information literacy instruction and will feature librarians from South University and representatives from Credo Reference, the database that was voted Library Journal’s “Best Overall” in 2012. This will be a collaboration-focused session so bring your ideas to share!
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Fitting facilities for today’s
library users
Janine Schmidt,
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Director, Mukurta Consulting
janine@mukurta.com and
Trenholme Director of Libraries
Emerita, McGill University
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Overview
• Changing user needs
• Library design traditions
• Design approaches
▫ Planning strategies
▫ Space layout – seating, collections, service points
▫ Ambience
▫ Signage and wayfinding
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The changing context
• It’s an Amazoogle cloudy, mobile, visual, wireless world - In Google
we trust– 40 languages,2.7 billion searches per day
• Disruptive technology. Smart phones, laptops, netbooks, I-
Pads, tablets, multiple e-readers, androids, apps for
everything, large-scale printers
• Social media, blogs, mash-ups. Dominance of Facebook, Twitter.
Constantly connected, but connecting?
• Real and virtual resources, print, multiple formats, visual media, i-
tunes, e-books outselling real books, e-
journals, Googlebooks, YouTube, FlickR, DOD and POD
• Open access, copyright? Democratization of knowledge. Everyone is
an expert
• E-research/Interdisciplinary/trans-disciplinary/translational
• Accountability/Quality/Performance/Spiralling costs/Shrinking
incomes
• New ways of doing business for libraries e.g. Collection
profiles, licensing issues, bundling
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Library users
• Teaching, research, professional and clerical
staff
• Graduate and undergraduate students
• Alumni, community
• Seek
inspiration, solitude, company, solace, inform
ation
• Watch movies, listen to podcasts, read and
review resources, chat with
friends, family, teaching staff and complete
strangers
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Library users
• “Look up” rather than “view in depth” – power
browsers, tapping and swiping
• Collaborate on projects
• Research problems
• Upload/download data, using
laptops, desktops, smart hand-held devices
• Create presentations and projects individually or
with others
• Use specialist software/apps
• Exchange information via SMS, email and social
media like Facebook and Twitter
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User behaviour
• Doing academic work with or around their friends or
classmates
• Making extensive use of technology and digital content
• Focusing on their academic work late at night and into
early morning (could be any time within a 24 hour
period)
• Relating to one another mediated by digital
technologies, social networking media
• Accessing and using information to create new
knowledge and art forms
• Socialising and learning at the same time
• Blending formal and informal learning experiences
Lippincott, Joan K.” Information Commons: meeting Millennials’ needs”. Journal of Library Administration, 50 (1), January 2010.
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Today’s screenager
• Reads 8 books per year, 2300 web pages, 1281 facebook
profiles
• Completes 49% of materials on reading lists
• Writes 42 pages for class, 500 pages e-mail
• Spends 3.5 hours online, 1.5 hours watching TV, 2.5 hours
listening to music, 2 hours on mobile phone, 2 hours
working, 2 hours eating, 3 hours in class, 3 hours studying
and 7 hours sleeping (26.5 hours - multitasking)
• Facebooks through class
• (A Vision of Students Today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o.
Michael Wesch and his class, Kansas State University)
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User perspectives (McGill)
Graduate student perspective
Undergraduate perspective
Faculty perspective
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User perspectives (Özyegin University)
• Talk with friends in the library when they want to
without feeling inhibited
• Socialise in the library
• Eat and drink when they feel like it
• Work in quiet spaces when they want to and need to
• Work in groups in group study rooms
• Store personal belongings
• Use mobile phones any time and anyplace
• Use the library any time, i.e. 24 hour access and
even sleep there
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Digital natives
• Digital natives http://youtu.be/7_zzPBbXjWs
• Game players
• Combine work and play
• Collaborators
• Competent technically but experience difficulty
finding information
• Need help and reassurance
• Learn from doing
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Value of libraries for research and
researchers
• Procures research material and facilitates easy access and
discovery of research material
• Offers a physical space – to work in, to access research
material, to access specialists
• Provides induction and training programs to develop research
skills
• Provides specialists who have subject and information
expertise to help with problems
• Provides information and advice (online and face-to-face)
• Provides a named point of contact
• Digitises important research collections
• Libraries are a physical manifestation of the values
of the academy and of scholarship
Research Libraries UK. Value of libraries for research and researchers. http://www.rluk.ac.uk/content/value-libraries-research-
and-researchers and http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/Value%20of%20Libraries%20TG_0.pdf Viewed 24th January, 2012
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Redefining the academic library
• Users go elsewhere for information
• No need for traditional librarians
• Space for more than just books
• Evolving metrics aligned with value
• Academic libraries will never beat Google
• Users switching faster than librarians
• Library as a social learning space
• Increasing and conflicting demands
• Should libraries do everything, straddling two eras?
University Leadership Council. Redefining the academic library: managing the migration to digital library services. 2011.
http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-the-Academic-Library.pdf. Viewed 8th January, 2012
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How do people see the Library?
• Custodian of books and other information resources – a book place -
old stuff, new stuff
• Friendly people providing help in doing assignments, solving
problems, finding work solutions, doing research, staying up to
date,, gaining a skill, learning something new …
• Source of expertise and training in information access and use
• Provider of infotainment
• Pleasant relaxing place, sanctuary and quiet place for
reflection, inspiration, reading, learning …
• Place to meet people, collaborate with others, eat, drink
• Supplier of electronic information
• Website guiding information access and use
• Link to other information suppliers
• Supplier of interlibrary loans
• Irrelevant
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User wants and needs
• Abundant technology, including sophisticated printing
and multimedia facilities, fixed computers, ubiquitous
power and wireless communication, laptop facilities
• Open environment for social engagement
• Functional inspiring space (including traditional
displays of print even though print is less used)
• Extended opening hours
• Segregated study areas with individual silent study
spaces and group study collaborative learning spaces
• Large tables and desks
• Comfortable chairs
• Appropriate seating for computers and desks
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User wants and needs
• “Green” and “sustainable”
• Training rooms
• Colour and plenty of light, including natural lighting
• Welcoming entrance
• Attractive and friendly ambience including art works
• Specialized spaces for graduate study with
additional facilities e.g. Coffee, printing, lockable
storage
• Easy wayfinding and clear signage
• Availability of additional student services
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User wants and needs
• Coffee and snacks
• Self-service e.g. Borrowing
• Ongoing maintenance and cleanliness
• More space
• Easily located personal help
• Library is part of the University brand
• Books are part of the Library brand
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In the beginning….
(http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/th
e-7-most-impressive-libraries-from-
throughout-history/)
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Library design traditions
• Collection-centered
• Located near users – branch libraries
• Archives, museum, library combinations
• Public, private, royal
• Owner/donor/funding authority/architect driven
• Form/function/edifice complex/monuments
• Literacy/Scholars/Educational role
• Dominated by product and process
• Spaces and collections based on library generated
rules/formulae
• Learning spaces
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New(er) design approaches
• Learning space/commons
• Knowledge mall/incubator
• Computer clubhouse
• Cyberspace
• Information centre/place, I-place, I-space
• Resource Centre
• Social network
• Community hub
• Learning hub
• People place
• Urban information bar
• Integrated with other services
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Learning space
• We learn
▫ From each other – peer to peer - collaborative
▫ From experts - didactic
▫ Through engagement and involvement – projects
▫ Reflective – reading, writing, feedback
▫ Skills, knowledge – how to and what
• Pedagogy – independent, self-
directed, unstructured, structured, interactive, case
studies, problem-based, group work
• Lifelong learning, distance learning,
• Learning management systems, use of technology
• Competency framework
• Linked to support and advisory services
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Sources of inspiration
• Markets, Villages
• Agora
• Restaurants
• Shopping malls, department stores, specialist stores
(music, videos, bookshops)
• The Apple stores
• Airport lounges
• Entertainment venues
• Parklands, commons, community gathering spaces
• Theatres, galleries, museums
• Other libraries
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The Apple store
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Sources of inspiration
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Sources of inspiration
• Future of the library http://youtu.be/asYUI0l6EtE
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Sources of inspiration
University of Aberdeen
Grand Reading Room, Mansueto
Library, University of Chicago
Macquarie University Library, Sydney
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Planning strategies
• Obtain client views
• Develop concept brief and prototype. Master plan?
• Find the best, replicate, steal ideas shamelessly
• Define functions, ensure form follows function and
fits environment
• Focus on flexibility, the
future, sustainability, maintenance
• Support extended hours, security, occupational
health and safety
• Find the “right” architect, interior designer
• Form an advisory group
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Space layout
• Get the entry visible and in the right place
• Transition – on the way to… and from …
• Learning/study spaces – individual/group
• Self-service cf. supermarkets
▫ Loans, reserve collections, room bookings
• Specialist facilities for differently-abled
• Auditorium/classroom
• Gathering points/open space
• Exhibition/display/gallery
• Café/restaurant
• Storage (chairs etc)
• Meeting rooms/collaborative spaces
• Seating/collections/service points
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Monash University (Melbourne)
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Monash University (Melbourne)
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Seating
• Silent/ quiet/active
• Group study
▫ Separate rooms/pods
▫ Banquettes/booths
▫ E-classrooms
• Specialist accommodation for graduates/Friends etc
• Carrels/tables, separated by low/high dividers in
perspex/opaque
• Use of ottomans and “perching” space –not
intended for lengthy periods of use
• Casual/comfortable/shaped seating
• Chairs (casters?)/high/low/ergonomic
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Bond University (Gold Coast, Queensland)
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Collections
• Integrated – avoid separation by size, format etc
• Automated retrieval
• Adjacent to seating, desks?
• All material in open access?
• Discard/retire little used collections – all print
low use
• Low shelving in public spaces
• Compact shelving in open access
• Avoid kick stools – fixed stool with long handle
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Bond University (Gold Coast, Queensland)
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Service points
• Near entry but not too near
• Adjacent to collections
• Adjacent to computers
• Integrated single service point? HELP of all
kinds
• Sit down/stand up
• Integrate some elements of self-service?
• Desks/roving staff
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McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
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University of New South Wales (Sydney)
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University of New South Wales (Sydney)
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The technology
• Fixed computers
▫ Standing room only
▫ In rooms/on desks
• Laptops/e-book devices/Ipods/IPads – loan
• Power points everywhere for plug in laptops/charging
• Large screens near entry for
messaging/communication/interactivity
• Power to desks/tables
• Scanners, printers, high end multimedia
• Maximize use of mobile devices
• Wireless
• Servers
• Production facilities
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McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
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Ambience
• Quiet, relaxing… vibrant
• Colour – themed
• Plants – “green”, encourage appropriate client behaviour
• Lighting - on shelves/desks, up-lighting
• Use of fabrics and furniture
• Art works
• Eating? Drinking? Approved cup
• Materials used e.g. timber, glass
• Flooring – carpet tiles, timber, vinyl etc.
• Soundproofing
• Student initiated recycling program
▫ In collaboration with Facilities, University Services and Library
▫ Removed all garbage bins
▫ Train students in recycling
• WOW factor
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University of Queensland (Ipswich campus)
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Signage and wayfinding
• Going to …/At…
• Badge and brand
everything
• Use screens
• Language
• Colour coding
• Consistency
• Avoid jargon
• Signage cannot correct
planning errors
• Manners –
please/NO…
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Signage
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Signage
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Library design showcase themes 2011
(Library Journal)
• Enhanced functionality
• Material matters
• Sustainable construction
• Navigation and colour
• Reclamation and renovation
• Design details
• Outdoor connections
• Community living rooms
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Some trends
• Flexible for an uncertain future
• Fewer and smaller service desks, multi-
purpose, mobile
• Self-service
• Minimalist
• Fads and fashions
• Invigorating a community
• Location, location, location...
• Seriously interesting - WOW
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Queensland University of Technology
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More trends
• Renovation – from eyesore to eye catcher
• Community hub matching community
expectations
• Importance of design briefs, planning and
preparation - the generic design brief is the little
black dress of library design
• Branding – consistency of messages
• Opportunity to change service delivery, improve
productivity, provide 24/7
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More trends
• Front facing shelving, slat walls, end panels
(messages/decorative)
• Mobile everything, folding tables, wheels on
counters/desks/shelving
• Staff amenities, cafes
• Support efficiency and productivity as well as client-
focused layout
• Large “big and bold” professional signs
• Look afresh at familiar environment, photograph it
• One size does not fit all
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Acknowledgements
• Colleagues at Bond University, Monash
University, McGill University, Queensland
University of Technology, University of New
South Wales, University of Queensland
….everywhere
• Hamilton Wilson from Wilson Architects, and
many others….
• People who are passionate about library design
• Library users who provided the best ideas
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Questions and discussion
Editor's Notes
What do people think of the library today? Which aspects are we wanting to emphasize?