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Setting the stage for academic engagement
Re-engineering the Georgia Tech Library
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives Annual meeting, Atlanta, January 2007
Crit Stuart, Associate Director for Public Services
Setting the stage for academic engagement
• Georgia Tech
• Library
• Drastic change
required
• West Commons
West Commons
Prior to renovation
West Commons
General productivity & multimedia studio
West Commons
General productivity
West Commons
General productivity
West Commons
Multimedia Studio
West Commons
Multimedia Studio
Implementing change
• What did we learn from West Commons?
• Why consider creating an East Commons?
• What process was used?
Focus on the customer
Library student advisory counsel
Capturing & distilling customer expectations
Affinity focus groups
Focus on the customer
Affinity focus group findings March 2005
• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
East Commons
Prior to renovation
Responding to input
East Commons
Feeding the body
East Commons: Café
• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
Feeding the body
East Commons: Café
Listening and learning
East Commons: Instant Theater
• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
Listening and learning
East Commons: Instant Theater
Using technology
East Commons: Customized by the individual
Using technology
East Commons: group computing
• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
Using technology
East Commons: group computing
Using technology
East Commons: group computing
Studying and relaxing
East Commons: study areas
• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
Studying and relaxing
East Commons: study areas
Studying and relaxing
East Commons: study areas
Studying and relaxing
East Commons: study areas
Circulation
East Commons: circulation
• Books
• Productivity tools
• Assistance
• East Commons
coordination
Changing focus
East Commons: transition zones
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• Aesthetics
• Space delineation
• Productivity tools
• Celebration
• Relaxation
• Distraction
• Connectedness
• Flexibility
Changing focus
East Commons: transition zones
Changing focus
East Commons: transition zones
Space delineation
East Commons: restaging walls
Space delineation
East Commons: restaging walls
Space delineation
East Commons: restaging walls
Flexibility
East Commons: From study space to Instant Theater
Flexibility
East Commons: From study space to Instant Theater
Flexibility
East Commons: From study space to Instant Theater
Flexibility
East Commons: From study space to Instant Theater
The new GT reality
• Changing pedagogy
• Replication / viral dissemination of our good spaces elsewhere on campus
• What it takes to be a learning destination or dwelling space
Feedback and assessment
• Assessment
• Surveys
• Blogs and other forms of commentary
• Ongoing research with other GT departments to evolve our spaces
Enhancing librarians’ roles
The ubiquitous librarian
Our “bold librarians” are encouraged to comment from the sidelines.
For a sense of how a young critic views our work, see various entries in
Brian Mathews’ blog space.
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com
Understanding
Library Commons memo of understanding
The Library Commons are an important collaboration between the Library and the
Office of Information Technology to define the vision and the design of the
Undergraduate Learning Center. The Library Commons is composed of the West
Commons, the East Commons, and the Resource Center. This memo of
understanding outlines the essential service, funding, leadership and governance
elements that sustain the endeavor, mitigate confusion and conflict, and clarify
responsibilities of the parties to assure uninterrupted success.
Flexibility
Focus on the customer
What’s next?
For more information . . .
For more information related to Georgia Tech Library’s learning spaces, contact
Crit Stuart at [email protected]
Beginning March 1, 2007, check the Georgia Tech Library’s home page at
library.gatech.edu for a series of documents and other materials related to the
transformations of the past 5 years.