notes & links

Toward a Learning Commons
OLA Annual Conference
Corvallis, Oregon
19 April 2007

Further reading

Dr. D. Russell Bailey (UNCC)
Information Commons Services for Learners and Researchers: Evolution in Patron Needs, Digital Resources and Scholarly Publishing
INFORUM 2005L 11th Conference on Professional Information Resources (Prague, May 24-26, 2005)
http://library.uncc.edu/infocommons/conference/prague2005/

Scott Bennett
“First Questions for Designing Higher Education Learning Spaces”
Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 33(1), 14-26
March 2007

Andrew Richard Albanese
“Campus Library 2.0″
Library Journal (April 15, 2004)
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA408330.html

Joan Lippincott
“Linking the Information Commons to Learning” (PDF)
Chapter 7, Learning Spaces
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102g.pdf

McMaster University
Knowledge Commons Service/Staffing Model Annotated Literature Review
2005
http://library.mcmaster.ca/about/k-commons/litreview.htm

North Carolina State University
Information Commons Resources: Selected Bibliography
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/jobs/epa/dlcbib.html

Examples

Estrella Mountain Community College
Designing Learning Spaces that Promote Engagement

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst Learning Commons
W.E.B. DuBois Library
http://www.umass.edu/learningcommons/

North Carolina State University Learning Commons
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/learningcommons/

An Experiment in Modern Knowledge Spaces: The Library East Commons (Quicktime)
A video created by an English 1102 class at Georgia Institute of Technology, describing and analyzing the Library’s process of creating a learning commons.
http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/13665

Assessment

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Learning Commons Assessment
http://www.library.umass.edu/assessment/learningcommons.html
Observational and other data, focus group reports, etc.

University of Minnesota
Poster Session
Starting with assessment: The development of an information commons from a user needs persepctive (PDF)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~crous018/acrl-poster/poster.pdf

Rachel Applegate, IUPUI
Information Commons Data Methodologies (MS Word)
www.arl.org/arldocs/stats/statsevents/laconf/2006/ApplegateInformationCommonsDataMethodologies.doc

IUPUI
ES Informal Learning Spaces: A Study of Use (PPT)
http://www.opd.iupui.edu/uploads/library/OD/OD8980.ppt

Zoomerang (online survey tool)
http://info.zoomerang.com/

SurveyMonkey (online survey tool)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Herman Miller
Research & Design portal
http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/IP/0,1776,a10-c362,00.html

Virtual Learning Commons

University of Manitoba
https://www.umanitoba.ca/virtuallearningcommons/

University of Minnesota Undergraduate Virtual Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/

Remixing/Digital Scholarship

Eric Mankin
“Requiem for the term paper”
Trojan Family Magazine
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/spring04/TermPaper1.html

Elizabeth Daley
“Expanding the Concept of Literacy”
EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=FFPIU027

Notes from the field

What’s the Secret to Successful Library Space?
The Ubiquitous Librarian
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2006/12/whats_the_secre.html

The Learning Commons Blog
Georgia State University Library
http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=82