Full Description
Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides experienced and detailed research-based guidance for academic librarians and other professionals charged with creating a learning commons. Readers can follow the entire process of developing a library learning commons design and implementation plan from inception to post-occupancy planning and assessment.
This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting.
Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within today's existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own library's new and innovative learning spaces.
Contents
Foreword by Donald Beagle
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Learning Commons Library Spaces
Chapter 2. Building Your Foundation
Chapter 3. Partnerships and Strategies for Successful Programming
Chapter 4. Architects, Designers, Contractors, and Budgets Oh My!
Chapter 5. Strategic Planning for Learning Commons Technology
Chapter 6. Choosing What Technology Goes into a Learning Commons
Chapter 7. Marketing and Promotion
Chapter 8. Teaching and Learning in a Learning Commons Space: Reference Services, Instruction, and Outreach
Chapter 9. Assessing Learning Commons Spaces and Reviewing Lessons Learned
Chapter 10. Successful Learning Commons Partnerships
Chapter 11. The Future of Library Learning Commons Spaces
Appendix A. Learning Commons Survey
Appendix B. Marketing Action Plan
