Category Archives for Spaces, Facilities & Programming
The smart campus: a future for our universities?
What is the ‘smart campus’? What might it be like to study, teach, research or work in one? How might learning spaces research, educational data, estate management practices, smart devices and artificial intelligence converge to shape the direction of our … Continue reading
Supporting Digital Scholarship and the Digital Humanities: A Collaboration on Concept, Space, and Services Between the Library and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne
Digital Humanities is inherently a collaborative endeavour. At the University of Melbourne, the Faculty of Arts and the University Library have collaborated on the establishment of a Digital Studio to support digital humanities research and partnership. Launched in late 2016, … Continue reading
Beyond metrics: Connecting academic library makerspace assessment practices with organizational values
The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to developing a makerspace assessment plan. This approach focuses on connecting organizational and service point mission statements with outcome-based assessment plan goals, strategies, methods, and success measures. Read More
Mapping the future of academic libraries
The report highlights a number of challenges and opportunities for SCONUL members, including the development of AI and machine learning, datafied scholarship and the on-going challenges of blurred boundaries between the library and the rest of the institutions and the … Continue reading
Creating a Connected Future Through Information and Digital Literacy: Strategic Directions at The University of Queensland Library
As knowledge-intensive institutions, universities face many challenges resulting from today’s highly dynamic technological environment. While the ways in which learners and researchers engage with digital information resources are complex and diverse, there is a keen awareness of the varying levels … Continue reading
Part Three: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—What are the skills and competencies for engagement?
Let’s ask ourselves what are the major competencies required for success? What should we invest our personal development focus on? Read More
Championing the Library’s Role in Sustainability
This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Madeleine Charney, a Sustainability Studies Librarian at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Through connecting sustainability communities across campus and supporting them with key library resources and services, Madeleine demonstrates how libraries … Continue reading
Signage UX: Updating library signs for a new generation
Like most college libraries, the Alfred C. O’Connell Library at Genesee Community College (GCC) struggles to find effective ways to tell students about upcoming events and new library services, and to promote library policies. Short of standing at the library … Continue reading
A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries
Six essays, written collaboratively by current and former CLIR postdoctoral fellows, explore the contributions that today’s academic libraries—as providers of resources, professional support, and space—are making to learning and teaching. Topics include the continuing evolution of the learning commons, information … Continue reading
Building a successful reading culture through the school library
Much research has documented the strong correlation between independent reading and academic achievement, and the school library can serve a crucial role in encouraging reading. Data collected provided evidence of the kinds of strategies, programmes and design that works to … Continue reading