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Quality 21st-century library design focuses on human health and well-being. Creating healthy indoor environments that physically connect us to the outdoors, offer access to daylight and views, and motivate us to move our bodies more is critical, since, according to … 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
Volume 3: How Design Can Help Us Rethink Library Spaces
The Building a Reading Culture (BRC) Project Roundtable on School Libraries and Design. Read More
NCSU Libraries Brings In Major Mellon Grant for Visualization
NC State has been awarded a $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the advancement of tools and techniques for developing and sharing large-scale visual content for research. Entitled “Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces,” … Continue reading
What the 21st-Century Library Looks Like
In the internet age, librarians are focusing less on books and more on teaching. Is something getting lost in the transition? Read More
Top Tech Trends: Advice for Makerspaces
“Makerspaces should meet the needs of your patrons and be built around your budget and staff,” shared Radniecki. Read More
Imagining the Future of Academic Libraries
This special issue explores the possibilities of what academic libraries might become or cease to be in a speculative future. Experts from different sectors of the academic library ecosystem were asked to share their visions of the future, with the … Continue reading
Innovative libraries delivering good design
The Australian Library Design Awards were created to showcase the best in contemporary library interiors and exteriors in Australia, and to celebrate the investment in libraries made by the nation’s institutions, corporations, local, state and territory governments. Read More
NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Library Edition
A video summarizing the point on the NMC Horizon report, detailing the trends, challenges, and developments in technology and the five-year impact that they have on academic and research libraries. Read More
Reconfiguring Auburn University’s Main Library for Engaged Active Student Learning
A sharing and review case report of how an academic library has redesigned spaces to fit evolving needs –specifically for coursework related needs. Read More