Creating a Learning Commons
A Practical Guide for Librarians
By (author) Lynn D. Lampert, Coleen Meyers-Martin
Publication date:
24 January 2019Length of book:
202 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
281x214mm8x11"
ISBN-13: 9781442272637
Creating a Learning Commons: A Practical Guide for Librarians provides experienced and detailed research-based guidance for academic librarians and other professionals charged with creating a learning commons. Readers can follow the entire process of developing a library learning commons design and implementation plan from inception to post-occupancy planning and assessment.
This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting.
Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within today’s existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own library’s new and innovative learning spaces.
This practical guide is designed to help librarians develop sound strategies for navigating the challenging issues that often emerge in launching a dynamic and collaborative new library learning commons space within a university or college setting.
Lampert and Meyers-Martin provide a practical guide, complete with examples and photos of award-winning learning commons designs. This book will help dedicated professionals identify best practices within today’s existing learning commons settings and get up to speed on how to best approach developing their own library’s new and innovative learning spaces.
Those considering the daunting task of remodeling an academic library to create or redo a learning commons will find this volume tremendously helpful. Lampert (coordinator of information literacy) and Meyers-Martin (coordinator of outreach svcs., both California State Univ. [CSU]–Northridge) provide guidance on redesign projects. Beginning with a history of the learning commons model, this practical work also explores the impact on the campus community, programming and partnership strategies, the benefits of technology plans, marketing and promotion, the roles of reference and instructional services, and assessment methods and tools for postoccupancy. Also included are in-depth interviews with a learning commons architect, a designer, and a project manager; a learning commons survey that the authors used as part of their research for the book; and CSU–Northridge’s Oviatt Library’s marketing action plan. VERDICT A superb offering for academic librarians and library administrators, as well as for faculty and students in a library architecture and space planning course.—Susan E. Ketcham, Long Island Univ. Post Lib., Brookville, NY