Library Design (video)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Director and University of Chicago Librarian Judith Nadler discusses continuity and change as reflected in the strategies of a great research library at the heart of a great University. Her ideas are built on 45 years of experience at the University of Chicago Library.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries. Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor in the Departments of History, Art History, the Committee of Geographical Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries. Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also Chair of the Provost's Task Force on the Library.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries. Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also Chair of the Provost's Task Force on the Library.Judith Nadler is Director of the University of Chicago Library and University Librarian.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries.James Neal is Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. On November 17, 2005, The Provost's Task Force on the Library and The University of Chicago Library hosted a one-day conference remembering the past and planning for the future of the Library. Speakers presented historical and current library perspectives and addressed issues of architectural and information-technology trends in research libraries. Geoffrey Freeman is Principal at Shepley Bulfinch Richardson Abbott (SBRA) in Boston. Unfortunately Mr. Freeman had emergency surgery on the day of the conference and could not attend in person; Carole Wedge, President of SBRA, presented Mr. Freeman's talk via videoconference.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This presentation describes a research project in which reiterative visitor observation and focus group research was conducted over the span of one year, during which high-impact and low-cost design changes were made to the first floor of a mid-sized academic library. Research results were used to assess user needs, shape design changes, and track user response to redesign. By grounding library redesign within the framework of observational and focus group feedback, we can better understand how visitors negotiate their movements through library spaces and interact with library resources, in order to better meet student and faculty research and learning needs.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The adaptadriven phystion of library spaces by implementing small-scale, user-driven physical changes to the user environment. This involved the refurbishing and the redesign of antiquated resources within the constraint of a limitedbudget. The desired library goal focuses on the improved suitability of the library as a place to further fulfill the needs of the modern-day user.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York serves a population of over 12,000 students. When we began to see that our two floor library was not adequately meeting student needs wedecided to create an environment conducive to both collaborative learning and individualstudy. With one floor a quiet/Reference floor and, after a drastic weeding project, the relocation of the circulating collection, the second floor was redesigned to encourage group study. New furniture, carpeting andfloor tiles as well as computers and electrical upgrades create a vibrant student centered atmosphere.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. At the UC San Diego Science & Engineering Library (S&E) we have reconfigured spaces, services, and collections in a series of small-scale renovations over the past four years. The result of these iterative changes is improved access to services and collections, more efficient use of staffing, and a lively library where students are actively engaged in collaborative study and learning in a variety of spaces. The S&E Library is better integrated with the rest of the Geisel Library space while maintaining a distinctive identity.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Galter Health Sciences Library initiated a series of small-scale, low-cost approaches to space renovation, all driven by the daily behavior of its users. Starting with the concept of "connection", electricity and online access was expanded, leveraging users' own personal devices.Next, shelves were removed, seating was relocated, and wheeled monitors and whiteboards were combined to create collaborative learning spaces. Finally, curriculum-specific collaboration was promoted by adding multimedia and high-tech whiteboard enhancements to existing meeting rooms. Assessment has been multi-tier and ongoing. The result is a low-cost space repurposing that changes with the daily needs of the users.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In the past four years Michigan State University Libraries have designed, constructed, created, and evaluated six small collaborative technology labs in our Main Library, four in our Engineering Branch, and one in our Business Library. In the Main Library we have also created two large collaborative study "areas." These projects have involved various outside funding sources, units, and personnel at MSU. These spaces have numerous technologies available such as specialized software, a camera to record presentations, SmartBoards,Interactive Plasma Screens, Videoconferencing, and more. This presentation will highlight a branch librarian's experience and that of the hi-tech space coordinator at MSU.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Incremental changes are best done in the context of a vision for the future of a library, with strategies for its transformation providing a framework to guide improvements. Getting to that vision requires thinking about the likelihood of alternative future scenarios, exploring how staff roles, services and user demands may change, and looking at innovations in other fields for new perspectives. Strategies that emerge can guide how areas may need to shrink, expand or be repurposed over time, and how small projects can be leveraged using an iterative process of testing and user feedback to inform the next phase in getting to the vision.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Black Hawk College Library redesigned its reading and circulation desk areas by trading their spaces. The suggestion for the redesign was made by a LIS graduate student from UW-Madison who was completing her required practicum hours at BHC in fall term 2006. During a library staff visioning exercise, she sketched a radically different entrance that had circulation where the s the circulation desk was located and put the reading area where students had been reading. In December 2008, the two areas were flipped and the transformation has been stunning. We didn't purchase any new furnishings, utilized cast offs from other departments, and created an immensely popular area for students and staff to congregate.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A decade ago, today's notion of learning spaces was largely theoretical. The paradigms of "smart" classrooms and computer labs were the models of the day -- simply add technology to a space and that would transform learning. What we didn't fully understand was that technology and space work together in concert with the individuals who use an environment. One spring day in 1998 a student walked into a computer lab at the University of Chicago with a piece of pizza, and that triggered a paradigm shift that would forever change learning environments on campus. This paper will explore opportunities and approaches to rethink the intersection of people, technology and space at an institution.