Creating Learning Spaces through Collaboration: How One Library Refined Its Approach

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Autores principales: Fox, Robert, Stuart, Crit
Formato: Recurso educativo Open Access
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Publicado: 2009
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contents Creating Learning Spaces through Collaboration: How One Library Refined Its Approach Fox, Robert Stuart, Crit Educational Facilities Improvement Space Utilization Design Preferences Library Development Library Facilities College Libraries Partnerships in Education Cooperative Planning User Needs (Information) Student Participation Library Services Interior Design Georgia Tech Library has undergone two learning space renovations in the past six years, with a third in 2009. This work is grounded in techniques that elicit user input. Library staff hope one day to completely renovate the entire 220,000-square-foot main library facility. Until that day arrives, library staff are making incremental improvements through renovations that test assumptions about learning spaces. Students are delighted with the results, and the library has garnered national attention in the process. In this article, the authors review how the three renovation projects were planned, executed, and assessed, with particular emphasis on the following techniques: (1) Engage users in all aspects of learning space creation; (2) Incorporate flexibilities into the built spaces to foster experimentation; (3) Avoid mimicking others' space solutions without first incorporating your own user-centered findings; and (4) Build in a continuous assessment program to inform upgrades and future projects.
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spellingShingle Creating Learning Spaces through Collaboration: How One Library Refined Its Approach
Fox, Robert
Stuart, Crit
Educational Facilities Improvement
Space Utilization
Design Preferences
Library Development
Library Facilities
College Libraries
Partnerships in Education
Cooperative Planning
User Needs (Information)
Student Participation
Library Services
Interior Design
Creating Learning Spaces through Collaboration: How One Library Refined Its Approach Fox, Robert Stuart, Crit Educational Facilities Improvement Space Utilization Design Preferences Library Development Library Facilities College Libraries Partnerships in Education Cooperative Planning User Needs (Information) Student Participation Library Services Interior Design Georgia Tech Library has undergone two learning space renovations in the past six years, with a third in 2009. This work is grounded in techniques that elicit user input. Library staff hope one day to completely renovate the entire 220,000-square-foot main library facility. Until that day arrives, library staff are making incremental improvements through renovations that test assumptions about learning spaces. Students are delighted with the results, and the library has garnered national attention in the process. In this article, the authors review how the three renovation projects were planned, executed, and assessed, with particular emphasis on the following techniques: (1) Engage users in all aspects of learning space creation; (2) Incorporate flexibilities into the built spaces to foster experimentation; (3) Avoid mimicking others' space solutions without first incorporating your own user-centered findings; and (4) Build in a continuous assessment program to inform upgrades and future projects.
title Creating Learning Spaces through Collaboration: How One Library Refined Its Approach
topic Educational Facilities Improvement
Space Utilization
Design Preferences
Library Development
Library Facilities
College Libraries
Partnerships in Education
Cooperative Planning
User Needs (Information)
Student Participation
Library Services
Interior Design
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ850619